Truth Quotes - Page 36

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.

The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.

All there really is to do now, is to be in the present Moment.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations. There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

It is a simple truth that if we identify ourselves as being fundamentally pure, strong, and capable we will actually develop these qualities, but if we continue to think of ourselves as dull and foolish, that is what we will become.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction. In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.