My Truth Quotes
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.
Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.
There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.
I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.
Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.
Know that Truth sees through bullshit. So if you can't handle looking at Truth, you must be a Devil's culprit.
The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.
People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.
There aint no substitute for the truth, either it is or it isnt. You see the truth it needs no proof, either it is or it isnt. And you know the truth by the way you feel.
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.
If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.
You've been my inspiration, through the lies you were the truth. My world is a better place because of you.
When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive.
Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.
Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.
I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up on life. I never knew I could be this happy, and that's the truth.
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.
The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.
The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.
