Larry Wall noted:
I have a book on my bookshelf that I’ve never read, but that has a great title. It says, “All Truth is God’s Truth.” And I believe that. The most viable belief systems are those that can reach out and incorporate new ideas, new memes, new metaphors, new interfaces, new extensions, new ways of doing things. My goal this year is to try to get Perl to reach out and cooperate with Java. I know it may be difficult for some of you to swallow, but Java is not the enemy. Nor is Lisp, or Python, or Tcl. That is not to say that these languages don't have good and bad points. I am not a cultural relativist. Nor am I a linguistic relativist. In case you hadn't noticed. :-)
Neo-Tech noted something similar:
"Truth" is a mushy, polyhydra word; everyone disputes its meaning.
A variant of an insight by Niels Bohr goes:
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Moreover, I noted in a tweet:
Not only is "All Truth is God's Truth", but "truth" is a function of time. If everyone copied solutions in Project Euler there'd be far more people who solved more than 400 problems, but people are more honest today.
Moreover, note that like the X-files motto goes, “The truths are out there”. The media, including Internet sites, blogs, and social media (and I may err on it too some time), will always emit a lot of static white noise in all directions (for example see my notes about Paris Hilton later), but people can tell the truth. The Bible depicts acts of massacre, adultery, and incest that would seem appalling, and which historians believe were common back then (see e.g: the story Levite’s concubine). Nevertheless, generations of children (and adults) who read it, knew better than to emulate that. [Definition of “media”]
Do note that there is a place for logical absolutism (= “1. A is A. 2. A is not not-A. 3. Every entity is either A or not-A.”; term logic/etc.) - without it mathematics won't be possible, nor will most modern engineering, computers (including many embedded and mobile devices), and computer networking. But I tend to agree with Bohr that often we can look at a more humane or spiritual issue from two different valid sides.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” — Bertrand Russell
I think that having doubts likely plays a part in making people wiser.
Like Ecclesiastes noted:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
One should apply judgement in reasoning.
[Definition of “media”] “Media” is a plural of a “medium of communications”. Such a medium is an "in-between" / "in-the-middle" device or mechanism that stands between your mind, and the observed objects.