Quotes about Truth

Man is, so to speak, an endless and infinitely varied repetition: and if we know what one man feels, we so far know what a thousand feel in the sanctuary of their being. Our feeling of general humanity is at once an aggregate of a thousand different truths, and it is also the same truth a thousand times told.

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

Apologetics comes from the Greek word apologia, which means a defense, as in a court of law. Christian apologetics involves making a case for the truth of the Christian faith.

The origin of the Christian faith is therefore inexplicable unless Jesus really rose from the dead.

Christians have an unfair advantage in the marketplace of ideas: We have truth on our side!

Something is objective if it is independent of people's opinions. If it holds or is true independently of what anybody thinks then it is objective. It is subjective if it is dependent upon people's opinions.

The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist.

Good apologetics involves "speaking the truth in love" (Eph. 4:15). Is Apologetics Biblical?

Christianity is supposed to be for old women and children, they would think. So what's this man with two earned doctorates from European universities doing here defending the truth of the Christian faith with arguments we can't answer?

A good argument must obey the rules of logic; express true premises; and have premises more plausible than their opposites.