The Will To Truth Quotes

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.

Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.

No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.

Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standing up to the greatest power.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.

I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!

A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.

God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away.

Usually we are saying only part of the truth.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!

In truth, it is I who have defiled myself, for one is one s own fiercest enemy.

The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.

I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.