Truth Quotes - Page 115

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

There's no God higher than truth.

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.