Truth Quotes - Page 61

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Truth is not private property.

I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

Truth is within ourselves.

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.

Frankness invites frankness.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.

Truth is always duller than fiction.

You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.