What Is Truth Quotes

Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

Truth is always duller than fiction.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Many a truth is told in jest.

What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

I think the truth is black-and-white .

Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.

Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

Integral reality is the world’s transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

Jesus said, "I am the way to heaven." I'm betting that he's not a liar. I'm betting that he told the truth.

This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

Truth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith.

By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth

I like business, and the truth is I save way more than I spend. I invest. I plan for the future. I have a special eye for opportunities and work harder than anyone might expect.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." In order for you yourself to become the way, the truth, and the life, you must embrace the whole universe and bring harmony to it.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.

I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.