Truth Quotes - Page 47

Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.

Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Peace is when the heart is no longer in duality, when the struggle within has been resolved.... A voice has been calling out: "What you are looking for is within you. Your truth is within you, your peace is within you..."

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

I know these will become old stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs and we'll all become somebody's Mom or Dad, but right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening and I'm here.

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.

People hate the truth. Luckily, the truth does not care.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.