Truth Quotes - Page 17

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.

You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.