Truth Quotes - Page 121

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.

Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

If you will stop all searching right now and tell the truth to yourself, you will know what is known in the core of your bones. You will know it with no image of it, no concept of it, no thought of it. You will know it as that which has eternally been here. And you will know it as yourself.

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.