What Is Truth Quotes

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,

Any good person who is motivated to attain awareness of the whole truth should follow the Universal Way to calm his mind and harmonize it with all aspects of life.

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

Truth is a relationship. As such, each one of us receives the truth and expresses it from within, that is to say, according to one's own circumstances, culture, and situation in life.

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.

This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.

People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

Darkness always tries to hide the truth!

Truth is the greatest strength we have against the darkness.

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

Because truth is unpopular does not mean that it should not be proclaimed.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

Where there is truth and error there is always compromise. Within some churches there is a movement to reshape the Christian messageto make it more acceptable to man.

If our minds and hearts are not filled with God’s truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs—the list is endless.

The Holy Spirit can take God’s word of truthand minister it to our deepest needs.

It is far better to know God’s truth than to be ignorant of it.

Honesty means exactly what it says. We are honest and trustworthy in all our dealings. People can trust our word, because we refuse to lie or shade the truth.

Only the Holy Spirit can open our eyes. Only He can convict us of the depth of our sin, and only He can convince us of the truth of the Gospel.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.

regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein

In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.

It is not enough to speak but to speak truth

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want." -Bob Dylan's Dad

The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.

For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?

We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.

... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.

LEAR: ...yet you see how this world goes.GLOS.: I see it feelingly.

Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.

The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

Truth and falsehood pass through the same lips and leave no mark, the devil does not cease to be the devil just because he may have spoken the truth.

One is punished most for one’s virtues.

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

Right is just and true.