Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

I think science is real.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

Truth is truth no matter what I think.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

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

[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.

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.

The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

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.

Is not the truth the truth?

All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.

Truth is its own defense.

How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

Belief made no difference to the truth.

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.