Quotes about the truth
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“The more noble and powerful a creature is, the more willingly it submits to the truth. Indeed it is powerful and noble precisely because of its submission.”

Guigo I (1083–1136) Cartusian monk

#84
The Meditations of Guigo I, Prior of the Charterhouse

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

Guigo I (1083–1136) Cartusian monk

#5
The Meditations of Guigo I, Prior of the Charterhouse

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

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2020, March 2020

Women, Men

“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.”

Noam Chomsky Media Control

Quotes 1990s, 1990–1994, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, (1991)

Reality, World

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

Clement of Alexandria book Stromata

Stromata (Miscellanies, c. 198–203 AD), I: 5.
Variant: Variant translation: There is one river of truth, but many streams fall into it on this side and that.

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

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Source: Knots Untied (1877), Ch. XVII: "The Fallibility of Ministers", p. 373

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.”

Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher

372
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960)

Men, Way

“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.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) Dutch feminist, author

Source: 2010s, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010), Chapter 10, “Islam in America” (p. 134)

Education

“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.”

Louis Farrakhan (1933) leader of the Nation of Islam

Farrakhan speaks in Birmingham to support Voting Rights Act https://www.al.com/spotnews/2013/06/farrakhan_speaks_in_birmingham.html (14 June 2013)

Personality

“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.”

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887–1952) British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator (1887-1952)

12 September 1936, Advice to the pupils of the Bishop Cotton School, Simla, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 19-20

Training, Life

“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.”

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887–1952) British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator (1887-1952)

12 September 1936, Advice to the pupils of the Bishop Cotton School, Simla, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 19-20

Thinking, Men

“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”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

they weren’t always
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 657)

Beauty, Reality, Science

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

Leonid Kuchma (1938) Second president of Ukraine

Speech at the 49th session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (1994)

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

Raheel Farooq Pakistani writer

Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew (2020)

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

Raheel Farooq Pakistani writer

Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew (2020)

Understanding

“Youth is truth.”

James A. Michener book The Drifters

The Drifters (1971) First lines

Youth

“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 —”

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet

The Prisoner (October 1845)

Home, Soul, Hell, Thinking

“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.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)

Literature, Cry, Forgetting

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Nascondersi affermando di avere un carattere di merda, quando la verità è non voler riconoscere che si ha mancanza di rispetto: è pura vigliaccheria.
Source: prevale.net

“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.”

Titon Rahmawan

Goal or motive

Understanding, Motivation

“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.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Strong, World

“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.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

People

“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.”

Howard Dean (1948) American political activist

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/27/elec04.prez.dean.transcript/

People, Learning, Lie, Change

“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.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“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.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Pain, Way, Change

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

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

People

“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.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Personality, Pleasure, Love

“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.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

People

“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.”

Alexis Karpouzos book BEYOND THE HEAVEN

Flying, Winter, Waiting, Dead

“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.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Soul, Reading, Dance, Sense

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

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Beauty

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

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Love

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

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Reality

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

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“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.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il tempo rivela sempre la verità sugli eventi accaduti: il vero processo della storia e in modo accurato, molto accurato l'anima ed il cuore di ogni persona.
Source: prevale.net

Soul, History, Time, Personality

“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.”

Roy Littlesun (1934)

Lying, Change, Law, Food

““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.””

Titon Rahmawan

“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.”

Titon Rahmawan

Knowledge, Thinking

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

Titon Rahmawan

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

Titon Rahmawan

““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.””

Titon Rahmawan

“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.”

Titon Rahmawan

People, Evil, Understanding, Thinking

“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.”

Titon Rahmawan

“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.”

Titon Rahmawan

Soul, Heart

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

Titon Rahmawan

Reality

“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.”

Titon Rahmawan

Personality

“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.”

Titon Rahmawan

Feeling

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

Titon Rahmawan

Lie

“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.”

Titon Rahmawan

Light, Death

“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.”

Titon Rahmawan

Soul, History, Flying, Anger

“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?”

Titon Rahmawan

Star, Speed, Secret, Sea

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

Ralph Smart

“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.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Universe, Reality

“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.”

Titon Rahmawan

Madness, Indifference, People, Way

“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.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Love

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Qualsiasi bugia ha una condanna: la sua durata. Il tempo, prima o poi, manifesterà la verità.
Source: prevale.net

Lie, Time

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Sono compatibile esclusivamente con chi racconta la verità.
Source: prevale.net

“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.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Non è comune trovare la donna che profuma di dignità, la donna forte che sa dire la verità, delicata e complicata perché consapevole del suo valore e che potrebbe appartenere solo a chi osa amare ogni suo difetto, con notevole rispetto.
Source: prevale.net

Strong, Love

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Per essere credibili, le bugie richiedono un'ottima memoria, altrimenti è meglio scegliere la dignità raccontando sempre la verità.
Source: prevale.net

Memory

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Non rinunciate mai alla verità, anche se molte volte per trovarla è necessario infrangere alcune regole.
Source: prevale.net

Time

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Stimate coloro che nel bene o nel male dicono la verità, saranno gli unici ad avere sempre rispetto.
Source: prevale.net

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Dicendo sempre la verità, non è necessario dover ricordare tutto.
Source: prevale.net

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Preferisco incondizionatamente una brutta verità ad una piacevole falsità.
Source: prevale.net

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Tutti vogliono conoscere la verità, ma non tutti riescono a sopportarla.
Source: prevale.net

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Quando, dopo aver ascoltato la verità, qualcuno si arrabbia e si offende, significa che mentiva e che ne era cosciente.
Source: prevale.net

Lying

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Le emozioni non mentono, raccontano sempre la verità.
Source: prevale.net

Lie

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Non prestate attenzione alla bontà delle persone, ma alla verità.
Source: prevale.net

People

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“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.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html

History, Literature, Science, Art

“Time will always reveal truths and falsehoods.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il tempo rivelerà sempre verità e falsità.
Source: prevale.net

Time

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Chi è abituato a dire costantemente la verità percepisce facilmente dov'è la falsità.
Source: prevale.net

“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.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Le persone intelligenti non si accontentano mai, cercano sempre di migliorarsi, per questo saranno le uniche pronte ad accettare anche verità scomode.
Source: prevale.net

Intelligence, People

“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.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La correttezza è essenziale in ogni tipo di legame: in una relazione sentimentale, in un'amicizia, nella vita e nel rispetto di sé, soprattutto nei momenti difficili. Protegge la fiducia, la verità e il rispetto.
Source: prevale.net

Time, Friendship, Life

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Non mi seduce la forma, mi inchino all'essenza. La bellezza che cerco non ha bisogno di specchi, esige verità.
Source: prevale.net

Beauty

“False steps confess the truth.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: I passi falsi confessano la verità.
Source: prevale.net

Falseness

“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.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La verità, anche se scomoda e dolorosa, avrà un valore assoluto rispetto a qualsiasi illusione che, seppur piacevole, rimarrà sempre fragile e ingannevole.
Source: prevale.net

Pain

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

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Chiunque ascolti una persona che ha l'abitudine di raccontare la verità, ne trarrà sempre affidabilità e credibilità.
Source: prevale.net

Personality

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Quotes about the truth
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