Truth Quotes - Page 79

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement.

the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life

There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To ignore context is the greatest source of catastrophe for every generation of man, and it continutes on in the present time with the same catastrophic consequences. There is no greater lesson that needs to be learned to reduce human suffering and bring ignorance to an end.

The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition, falsity, or misinformation. And there is no better system for determining the truth than free speech: Testing the validity of an idea in the waters of public discussion and debate.

The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture.

Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

It's become my brand in a way you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding

I never know how much of what I say is true.

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?'

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.