Truth Quotes - Page 56

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

The first undeniable reality is that every living thing dies, and the second undeniable reality is that we suffer throughout our lives because we don't understand death. The truth derived from these two points is the importance of clarifying the matter of birth and death. The third undeniable reality is that all of the thoughts and feelings that arise in my head simply arise haphazardly, by chance. And the conclusion we can derive from that is not to hold on to all that comes up in our head. That is what we are doing when we sit zazen.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Many a truth is told in jest.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

Be prepared and be honest.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes me feel good.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.