What Is Truth Quotes

True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.

The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.

And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

On every parable you ride to every truth.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.

Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth.

I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.

The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear.

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself.

The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush it - will, as Dr. King would say, rise up again, and in the final analysis will prevail.

If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.

I know a lot of people talk about Seal's bicycle shorts, but it is the truth! That is what he was wearing the first time I met him and I was overwhelmed.