Veronica Roth Quotes

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature.

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that's often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.