Truth Quotes - Page 83

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.

Truth is child of Time.

The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has been found demanding, and not tried.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.

The truth will always have a market.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

.......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which will probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth.

When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open up.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

Truth is in things, and not in words.