Truth Evaluation Quotes

It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.

An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say.

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

All propositions are of equal value.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

Truth is about propositions. When it comes to determining truth, it is vital to understand the methods used by individuals in asserting propositions.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another that, even as a 5-year-old boy, there was no way that both of these stories are true. Something in the middle is true, and I have to figure out what it is, what the truth is, and I never did quite figure that out.

The longer you hold a belief, the less likely it is to be true.

I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what anybody else has to offer therefore has to be true.

When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth - and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.