What Is Truth Quotes

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

I can only live in my truth.

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.

Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

What happens when you broadcast the truth is you piss everyone off!

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.

Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.