Truth Quotes - Page 3

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

Who lies for you will lie against you.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

The truth is the best propaganda.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

It is the mind that makes the body.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.

We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.