Truths Quotes
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The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it.
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I began to be quite outrageous, and told him all I conceived of him; uttering several bold truths, not in the least to the advantage of his character.
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.
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There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
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Mama, did you teach me to be honest, to keep my integrity no matter what? Why did you tell me that bad truths were better than good lies?
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
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One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
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The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
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The teaching begins by calling upon us to develop a faculty called yoniso manasikāra, careful attention. The Buddha asks us to stop drifting thoughtlessly through our lives and instead to pay careful attention to simple truths that are everywhere available to us, clamoring for the sustained consideration they deserve.
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There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
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I think myself as a searcher for truths, with new truth for each place I visit.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.
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They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.
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Opera does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.
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If we could read the minds of animals we would find only truths.
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.
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We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
