The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>