Quotes about truth
truth taste firsts
we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it. Laura Riding
truth path deviation
Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path. Tryon Edwards
truth hate delay
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.) Sophocles
truth lying ruins
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
truth truth-is straightforward
Truth is always straightforward.
truth truth-is
The truth is ever best.
truth prussia argument
The truth is always the strongest argument.
truth artist style
Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too-everyone says so-but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be you know. Stephen King
truth-is individual
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time. Soren Kierkegaard
truth order clothes
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
truth crowds praise
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
truth race age
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
truth desire world
The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.
truth-is traps
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
truth truth-is mark
Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.
truth kissing emergencies
Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.
truth men
I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. Marcus Aurelius
truth military lying
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
truth ignorance thinking
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
truth men want
I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.
truth intelligent greatness
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
truth being-true stills
On cannot be precise, and still be true. Marc Chagall
truth justice affair
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.... Ralph Waldo Emerson
truth real lying
...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.
truth errors people
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
truth learning steps
We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge. Sharon Salzberg
truth-is enlightened lit
How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit Neil Peart
truth real world
We live in a real world. Come back to it. Natalie Portman
truth heart temples
My heart is my temple and with it I can see and hear Truth. My heart is my conscience and Truth is God. Suzy Kassem
truth-will-set-you-free repression conscience
Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.
truth men hands
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand. Thucydides
truth freedom knowledge
Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. Robert A. Heinlein
truth fool sadistic
Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.