The Truth Quotes
Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.
It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.
The higher Truth is all the time working in us but through the lower power - Aparashakti. It is when we become conscious of the play of this higher Power then only yoga begins.
The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.
Real beauty is when you're centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.
I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.
We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist.
Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.
The truth is: If you knew you could handle anything that came your way, what would you have to fear. The answer is: NOTHING!
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.
Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've done them both and this is hard and dangerous.
One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.
Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.
The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may.
No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.
TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.
The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."
A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.
I really like individualism based on truth. That's something I try to think about. What do I actually think about that, what do I actually feel right now? As opposed what should I feel.
Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.
Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.
There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.
The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.