Quotes about the truth

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“Without form or comeliness, and nailed to the cross—thus is truth to be adored.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing.”

“The picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies.”

“There is one river of truth, which receives tributaries from every side.”

“Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth upon the altar of peace.”

“Visit not miracle-mongers and those who exhibit occult powers. These men are stragglers from the path of Truth. Their minds have become entangled in psychic powers, which are like veritable meshes in the way of the pilgrim to Brahman. Beware of these powers, and desire them not.”

“If your goal is to seek the truth, which education is supposed to do, then we cannot deny that a strict interpretation of Islam is preparation for bigotry, violence, and oppression.”

“You cannot find one synagogue I desecrated. You cannot find one Jewish person I have harmed, except I refuse to be silent when I know the truth. And it was Jesus who said you shall know the truth and the truth will set us free.”

“No one can possess what we call good judgement, which is about the same thing as an instinct for recognizing Reasonable Probabilities, whose mind is not trained to follow truth. And in many of the most important things of life. Reasonable Probabilities are our only guides.”

“Truth is the only foundation of honour, and the surest source of a man's influence with his fellow-men. When you come across someone of whom those who know him say "so-and-so told me such and such a thing, so it must be true" you are dealing, believe me, with a man to be reckoned with. But there are other aspects of Truth not quite so obvious as those with which I have been dealing. We have been thinking about Truth as between ourselves and others. There is also, and just as important, the matter of Truth within ourselves.”

“Science was a social construct, but it was also and most importantly its own space, conforming to reality only; that was its beauty. Truth is beauty, as the poet had said, speaking of science. And it was; the poet had been right”

“An old truth asserts that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

“A line of reasoning does not lead but follows us to truth.”

“It is not truth that is validated by a proof, but one’s understanding of it.”

“Youth is truth.”

“But first a hush of peace, a soundless calm descends;
The struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends
Mute music sooths my breast — unuttered harmony
That I could never dream till earth was lost to me.

Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;
My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels —
Its wings are almost free, its home, its harbour found;
Measuring the gulf, it stoops and dares the final bound —

O, dreadful is the check — intense the agony
When the ear begins to hear and the eye begins to see;
When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again,
The soul to feel the flesh and the flesh to feel the chain.

Yet I would lose no sting, would wish no torture less;
The more that anguish racks the earlier it will bless;
And robed in fires of Hell, or bright with heavenly shine
If it but herald Death, the vision is divine —”

“After you have settled yourself in a place as favorable as possible to the concentration of your mind upon itself, have writing materials brought to you. Put yourself in as passive, or receptive, a state of mind as you can. Forget about your genius, your talents, and the talents of everyone else. Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that lead to everything. Write quickly, without any preconceived subject, fast enough so that you will not remember what you're writing and be tempted to reread what you have written. The first sentence will come spontaneously, so compelling is the truth that with every passing second there is a sentence unknown to our consciousness which is only crying out to be heard.”

“Hide by claiming to have a shitty character, when the truth is not wanting to acknowledge that you have disrespect: it is pure cowardice.”

“I won't be understood if I don't have a goal. Has no motive. Not to expose the truth. Not also to be judged. But from the beginning I knew and realized, I would not be easy to understand.”

“Consider that if a truth is able to destroy or destabilize something, that thing was not strong, real or stable in the first place. That stability you thought you had, was a total illusion. Your world was built on quicksand.”

“We have no shot at creating a thriving human society without seeing the truth. And we can’t create a thriving human society without making this a society that is conducive to people being truthful.”

“And the reason we're going to win the nomination is because of you. Because soon or later, all Americans are going to learn what you've already learned; that the biggest lie told by people like me to people like you at election time is that, "If you vote for me, I'm going to solve all your problems." The truth is, the power to change this country is in your hands, not mine.”

“If we show or tell someone a truth about ourselves, it will cause them to become more clear about their truth. We have to develop the capacity to make room for both truths.”

“Truth is not a pain killer. This means that truth might bring the experience of relief, or it might bring the experience of pain. But either way, it holds within it the power of positive change.”

“Throw out previous teachings from people who seek to CONTROL instead of to KNOW THE TRUTH of their emotions.”

“With the right person, you will experience someone who is able not only to accept, but also to love the truth of you and meet your needs because it brings them pleasure to do so.”

“Open the flood gates and expose the truth of who you are, and all that will be left is people who accept it. All others will flee, you will be left with only those that are allies.”

“If desires fly by like shadows,
If vows are empty words,
Is it worth it to live in this fog of delusion?
Is it worth it to live if the truth is dead?
is it worth when life’s summer grows to winter?
Then it is to know what love is,
waiting on a foreign shore.”

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.”

“Truly beauty is the highest value, on par with the good and the truth.”

“Humanity will break out of any web, it only has to comprehend the value of love and truth.”

“Truth is the only opportunity you have to create real things in reality.”

“No matter what your "should standard" would have you believe, the truth is that there is no shame in struggling.”

“Time always reveals the truth about the events that happened: the true process of history and accurately, very accurately the soul and heart of each person.”

“The Spirit Knows. The Mind is capable of Lying. The Body always tells the Truth. How we use the Mind can be Seen by the Condition and Looks of the Body. Put it altogether in order to be True to the Spirit…. this requires the practice of the Sacred Art of Eating, for Creation is FOOD and what EATS. It resonates to Creator's One Law, CHANGE. Moreover, we are Creation in the Human Form.”

““Truth does not belong to cowards. The truth does not belong to the losers. The truth belongs only to those who dare to speak out against tyranny and injustice, whatever the consequences.””

“In many cases, humans think themselves as the culmination of all knowledge. In fact, more things we don't know about ourselves. Without knowledge of the source of that truth, humans cannot exist. Humans have no value.”

“How can my limitations in humanity bring me the truth? How can I find truth that I don't know?”

“Truth leaves no room for any speck of doubt. His existence is absolute and undisputed.”

““My biggest mistake is that I consider myself as the subject. The fact is, I am only an object of existence. My limitations, hinder my view. My ignorance keeps me away from the truth.””

“How can we understand good if we don't know bad and evil? Perhaps therein lies the mystery of human existence. How will the Truth reveal itself. So that people think, that in order to find the truth, humans have to test the true quality of goodness. Because, only from kindness, we will find the real truth.”

“If there are still doubts about the truth behind human existence, then the answer to those doubts is the fact that humans cannot control their own destiny.”

“Your thoughts will only lead you astray, leading you away from the truth as long as you harden your heart from the fact that you are filled with limitations. And the hardness of your heart will make your soul fall into the abyss of destruction.”

“In reality, nothing is truly genuine and original. Everyone has their own version and they openly claim it as the truth.”

“How important is the realization of personal dignity and self-respect? These are principles whose value is the same as what we believe to be true. Losing self-esteem means losing grip on truth values.”

“The truth, of course, exists in everything and everyone. It's just that humans don't always have the sensitivity and ability to see and feel its presence.”

“A lie can become the truth in the hands of a despotic ruler.”

“The worst thing about death is not uncertainty. The worst thing about death is the certainty that humans will be separated from the light of the true truth as a result of their own arrogance and ignorance.”

“After time betrays history. We forget the words of the heroes. What did they shout when a bayonet pierced their chest or a bullet lodged in their head? There was blood that flowed soaking the earth. Not only fostering anger or revenge, but also love for the motherland. It was the overflow of a soul that wanted to fly to freedom. Still wanting to fight against death. For hopes, dreams, justice and truth. No longer shouting the word: "Merdeka!" but to uphold the dignity of our beloved country as high as possible.”

“How naive man is when he thinks he can measure the depth of the sea, the flow of a river, the speed of the wind, the distance between stars and galaxies. Is he still able to weigh his own foolishness and arrogance? That he can uncover the secrets behind all truths?”

“Connecting with those who remind who you are strengthens you, we see unity is the only truth—separation is the only illusion.”

“By ignoring truth and by creating YOUR OWN reality, you can turn yourself into a cancer cell within the collective and within the universe at large.”

“What is this nonsense? We're not here at the moment. At least, we don't expect to be. Trying to get out of what people think of themselves. All this futility. The earth we walk on is slowly burning.

Is that the kind of statement you want to write? You shout? Will it end up in vain? The rebellion of desire. There is no sanctity or half-truth.

All that nonsense is fake. The hatred that people cultivate from their own disbelief. A conflict of the soul, an inner struggle, or whatever you want to call it. Where will they go? After years and centuries of waiting. Will we find our way or will we forever be lost?

For too long we have slept in the illusion of this madness. This rage. Things we don't believe to be true. Everyone looking for their own truth. Ignorant and indifferent to each other.

Do we feel lucky with our ignorance? With all our naivety? Accepting everything without being able to fight back? Have we been blinded by pseudo-reality, which does not touch our very essence?

What kind of truth are we still debating? What authenticity are we still looking for? Those of you who feel poor, who are still confined by suffering. Arise, live, lift your own burdens! If you have not been able to lighten the burden of others.”

“If the ultimate truth is that we are all one, because we are all made of the same conscious energy, there is no difference between loving yourself and loving something else, at the end of the day, every form of love is self-love.”

“Any lie has a condemnation: its duration. Time, sooner or later, will manifest the truth.”

“I am compatible exclusively with who tells the truth.”

“It's not common to find the woman who smells of dignity, the strong woman who knows how to speak the truth, delicate and complicated because she knows her value and who could belong only to who dare to love her every defect, with notable respect.”

“To be credible, lies require a good memory, otherwise it is better to choose dignity always recounding the truth.”

“Never give up the truth, even if many times to find it you necessary breaking some rules.”

“Esteem those who for better or for worse tell the truth, they will be the only ones who will always have respect.”

“By telling always the truth, it's not necessary to having to remember everything.”

“I unconditionally prefer an ugly truth to a pleasant falsehood.”

“Everyone wants to know the truth, but not everyone can stand it.”

“When, after listening the truth, someone gets angry and offended, it means that they were lying and and that he was conscious of it.”

“Emotions do not lie, they always tell the truth.”

“Pay attention not to the goodness of people, but to the truth.”

“In a certain way, I think that literature is capable of effectively uncovering and revealing many more “layers” of the framework that composes and hides our society and ourselves. That is, it is capable of bringing us closer to something that, for lack of a better word, I will call “Truth,” and that applies to Art itself, more than to History, more than to Anthropology, or more than to any other branch of the Social Sciences.”

“Time will always reveal truths and falsehoods.”

“Who is accustomed to constantly telling the truth easily perceives where is the falsity.”

“Intelligent people are never settle, they always try to improve themselves, for this they will be the only ones ready to accept even uncomfortable truths.”

“Correctness is essential in every type of relation: in a relationship, in a friendship, in life, and in self-respect, especially in difficult times. It protects trust, truth, and respect.”

“Doesn't seduce me form, I bow to essence. The beauty I seek needs no mirrors, it demands truth.”

“False steps confess the truth.”

“The truth, even if uncomfortable and painful, will have an absolute value compared to any illusion which, although pleasant, will always remain fragile and deceptive.”

“Anyone who listens to a person who has the habit of telling the truth, will always gain reliability and credibility from it.”