Truth Quotes - Page 76

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its SEED. Having Found the seed, let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Where ever it may blow, it will germinate. There is no lack in this wide universe of souls that will form the new ground.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.

Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.

When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost.

Our own life has to be our message.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.