“Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence wherever it leads; (2) if one has a theory, one needs to be willing to try to prove it wrong as much as one tries to prove that it is right; (3) the ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.” IfsNeedsTryingHas BeensThreeBeliefUnderstandingCommonPrinciplesWillingTheoryKeysComfortTruth IsProveModelsEvidenceUltimateExperimentsCommon SenseEleganceTheoreticalProve ItEthosArbiterWilling To Try Book:A Universe From Nothing Source: A Universe From Nothing
“Don't close off the possibility of new truth because you've been comfortable with an old one. Life be-gins at the end of your comfort zone.” EndsLife IsPossibilityComfortTruth IsComfortableZoneComfort ZoneGin Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I found that most people don't really want to know the truth. There are plenty of people who want to know the truth on their terms or require that the truth be contained within certain boundaries of comfort. But truth can never be known this way. You have to seek truth from a place of not knowing, and that can be a very threatening place because we think we already know the truth or we are afraid of what the truth might be.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantMightCertainFoundTermKnownKnowingComfortTruth IsBoundariesPlentyNot KnowingThreatening Author:Jim Palmer
“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort” LyingComfortPleaseTruth IsJokesConcernInsult Author:Katherine Dunn
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” FactsLyingEnjoyOpinionEnemySubjectsComfortTruth IsMythInterpretationDeliberatePersistentDiscomfortClichePersuasiveHold Fast Author:John F. Kennedy
“"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".” InspirationInspiringPracticeMeditationComfortTruth IsComfortableTestsVedanta Author:Swami Vivekananda
“This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.” PeopleKnowsWorldWellsMayRealitySeemsLyingOpportunityGivenCan DoChanceSimpleComfortTruth IsCrueltyChanging The WorldTelling The TruthFalsehoodDefeatedArmament Author:Mira Grant
“If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks the god Jehovah will bail him out serve in public office is like letting a man who believes in Santa Claus run a Toys 'R Us. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” IfsThinkingMenShouldBelieveRunningLyingReligionBeliefReligiousOpinionEnemyComfortTruth IsOfficeMythDelusionToysDeliberatePersistentSantaDiscomfortSanta ClausJehovahPersuasivePublic OfficeBailHarbourBelieve In Santa Author:John F. Kennedy