Truth Quotes - Page 8

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

If you want peace, work for justice.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our wellbeing is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

The truth is, sometimes you have to get left before you can get right. Sometimes God will take you left on your journey to get you right, to do a work in you that will prepare you for what He has for you.

The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.

I've always thought that the most powerful weapon in the world was the bomb and that's why I gave it to my people, but I've come to the conclusion that the most powerful weapon in the world is not the bomb but it's the truth

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.