Truth Quotes - Page 66

You doubt because you love truth.

There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.

No one is entitled to the truth.

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. 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.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right - so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I don't know. I've never known it. I'd like to understand.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.