Quotes About Balance

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.

Duality is always secretly unity.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.