Truth Quotes - Page 68

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

There is no god higher than truth.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.

Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed, the opportunity that is offered. How we make use of this opportunity depends upon the degree of our participation, how much we are prepared to give ourselves to the work that needs to be done, to the freedom that needs to be lived.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.

Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words or images, that which remains concealed and unverified, which is perhaps why we do recount so much or even everything, to make sure that nothing has ever really happened, not once it's been told.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.