Truth Quotes - Page 70

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.

Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.