Veracity, sincerity, candor, honesty, genuineness; gospel, accuracy, correctness, rightness, validity, factualness, factuality, authenticity; TRUTH
Human beings on earth have worshipped TRUTH. From tribal beliefs and organized faiths, they hold truths as their best option. https://youtu.be/kqHsbH1plG8
Truth is in the eyes of a beholder, as some would argue using terms like alternative facts. https://youtu.be/HDf5YIojJfA
When we appear in court, we swear a solemn oath: to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. This will be done.
When we tell the truth, we live up to our highest self. When we search for the truth, we aspire towards nobility. Every one of the great Faiths asks us to strive for absolute and complete honesty and truthfulness, both internally and externally
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. https://youtu.be/b3HW2BYxz5Q
Honesty and truthfulness are the first steps for a religious pluralist, someone who believes that all Faiths have similar spiritual teachings in common. Because telling the truth and knowing the truth is so closely related—to be truthful, then to independently investigate reality and determine the truth.
These fundamental human tasks—Telling the truth and knowing the truth—have a close, symbiotic relationship to one another. When we tell the truth, you practice the essentially spiritual skill of knowing it first.
Lying kills a truth-barometer we all have when we are born and diminishes our ability to recognize the truth. https://youtu.be/8zUblhfv6GI
The worst of all qualities and the most odious of all attributes, and the very foundation of evil is lying, and that no more evil or reprehensible quality can be imagined in all existence. It brings all human perfections to naught and gives rise to countless vices. There is no worse attribute than this, and it is the foundation of all wickedness.
I have gotten in plenty of trouble over the years from saying the truth.
Do you know the difference between subjective truth; deductive or logical truth; and inductive or scientific truth?
Subjective truth means personal experience: for example, I hate eggplant. For me, that’s the truth, and so I avoid eating eggplant when and wherever I can. I have a good friend, though, who absolutely loves eggplant, and uses it in many of the recipes she makes. For the sake of our friendship, we have agreed to disagree on eggplant-related subjects. Subjective truth, then, is simply a personal opinion, influenced by life experience and taste and cultural conditioning and as widely variable as there are people in the world. Subjective truth, then, is valid—but only in a personal way.
Deductive truth—which we arrive at through logic—can probably best be explained through the example of a syllogism: all fish swim; a trout is a fish; therefore a trout swims. That’s an ironclad, logical argument—if the premises are true, then the conclusion must also be true. Thank you, Aristotle, Wittgenstein and Alfred North Whitehead. So when we want to have a productive discussion about the truth, we normally use the reasonable, rational framework of a logic path to reach it. Deductive truth, then, is universally valid.
Inductive or scientific truth gets trickier. From scientific observations, carefully made, we draw inductive conclusions about larger realities: we know what is true that the Earth is warming, as scientifically measured temperatures in many places and many times over such a long period.
"Speaking truth to power" is a phrase usually reserved for those who supposedly risk something by telling the TRUTH. https://youtu.be/tA4xj6lDkME
Our task as individuals involves discovering truths, and if we keep an open mind and if we tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!