Truth Quotes - Page 84

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or think what is holy, justand true; [Enthusiasm is] A Full, but false persuasion in a man that he is inspired.

In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be honest and severe in your self-appraisal. Learn the art of learning, and you are well on the way to achievement. True greatness is reflective, not assertive.

To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed.

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

We are all afraid of the truth.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Truth is a naked and open daylight

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.