“Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth.” IfsShouldHumansEarthHuman BeingsRightsBasesClaimsCaringBeing TrueCriteriaTrue Peace Book:Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion
“Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.” IfsKnowsMenWantGivingBelieveMayRealFactsHelpingMightUniverseNaturalAnswersChristianityHonestAccountsClaimsMedicineBeing TrueHelpfulHonest ManUntruePatents Author:C. S. Lewis
“Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. What fails the test of empirical reality, as determined by observation and experiment, gets thrown out like yesterday's newspaper.” ShouldEnoughPlayRealityRolesFailingProveTestsBasesClaimsStressDeterminedYesterdayNewspapersExperimentsBeing TrueObservationMeritThrownCompetingDiscerning Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.” ThinkingBelieveClaimsDon't BelievePhotographBeing TrueTrue Or False Author:Errol Morris
“You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a photograph is a picture of a horse or a cow, but it is the sentence that expresses the claim, which is true or false, not the photograph.” ElementsClaimsHorsePhotographSentencesBeing TrueCowsCaptionTrue Or False Author:Errol Morris
“Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.” ClaimsAskingScriptureBeing TruePropositionsAsking QuestionsRhetorical Author:D. A. Carson
“Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.” ImportantWrittenClaimsBeing TrueTextbooks Author:James W. Loewen
“I want people to see that Christianity claims to be true in the deep sense, and if it isn't, then it solves nothing at all.” PeopleIfsWantChristianityClaimsSolveBeing True Author:Greg Koukl
“To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.” ImportantWould BeMusic IsClaimsBeing TrueSentimentalOxygen Author:Roddy Doyle
“First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.” FirstsImportantScienceTheoryDiscoveryClaimsObviousAbsurdBeing TrueInsignificantAdversaries Author:William James
“If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.” IfsDoeReasonReligionAcceptingAtheismToolsClaimsBeing TrueMeritAdmitting Author:Dan Barker
“There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.” SaidTheoryTestsClaimsBeing TrueRivals Author:A.J. Ayer
“Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.” IfsMenWorldWantWarWould BeFacesFightingSpeakSidesDemocracyHe ManSafeRedClaimsVictimBeing TrueTyrantsAntiwarSolitaryPatriotMurdererFace To FacePretenseSpeak The TruthTraitorRobbersArchesAristocraticHumbugConspirators Author:Eugene V. Debs