Truth Quotes
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I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.
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There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.
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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.
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
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The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.
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... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.
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The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness.
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The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.
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Mere negations give all advantage to superstition; error seems wisdom and wealth when truth is silent.
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These were the Sophists, and their interest was in teaching the use of argumentative skills of the sort previous philosophers had exhibited, but as a means of attaining worldly success, for instance in politics. Unfortunately, they gained a reputation for being rather cynical and unscrupulous in their argumentative standards: any old argument would do as long as it persuaded one’s listener, even if it was totally fallacious; what mattered was winning the debate, not arriving at the truth, and the line between logic and rhetoric was thus blurred.
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Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.
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The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.
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Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
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In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.
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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
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And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?
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Truth is the daughter of time, not authority.
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Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.
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Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!
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Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
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I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
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The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.
