Quotes About Truth

El maestro llevaba muchos años predicando que la vida no era más que ilusión. Cuando murió su hijo, rompió a llorar. Sus discípulos se le acercaron y le dijeron: –Maestro, ¿cómo puede llorar tanto si nos ha explicado que todas las cosas de esta vida son una ilusión? –Sí —respondió el sabio, enjugándose las lágrimas que resbalaban por sus mejillas—, ¡él era una ilusión tan hermosa!

el comportamiento asertivo conlleva un costo social: la gente sincera incomoda

Un pensamiento sin conciencia de sus limitaciones es un pensamiento incompleto. Mantener una actitud crítica saludable significa no aceptar ideas o doctrinas sin haberlas sometido antes a un análisis cuidadoso donde se pueda evaluar su verdad, su falsedad o las dudas que de ellas surgen. Las personas que no le temen a la crítica son inconformistas y poseen la dosis de incredulidad necesaria para acceder a todo tipo de información sin escandalizarse ni ofenderse.

Habrá algo más irracional que buscar la certeza absoluta? Si no dudaras nunca, estarías muy cerca del fundamentalismo ("La base de mis creencias es cierta por definición"), del dogmatismo ("Mi verdad es la única") y del oscurantismo ("El nuevo conocimiento es peligroso"). Vivirías en la zona más tenebrosa de la Edad Media mental. Recuerdo

fíjate en lo que se dice y no en quien lo dice.   El

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.

I cannot tell how the truth may be;I say the tale as 'twas said to me.

Tell that to the marines—the sailors won't believe it.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

what if everything that we see, everything that seems real - what if it was not real?...What if the stuff that was real was somehow hidden?... [56]

what if everything that we see, everything that seems real - what if is was not real?...What if the stuff that was real was somehow hidden?...[56]

But behind that there is the truth about us and the truth is that most people come to religious life because they need to.

So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity.

Divine judgment is intended not to destroy but to awaken people to the devastating truth about their lives.

Aller werdekeit ein füegerinne daz sît ir zewâre, frowe Mâze. ein sælig man, der iuwer lêre hât!

I wish you would stop being so negative. I'm not being negative; I'm just facing the truth. The truth is you have a lot to learn about how God wants us to live, and unless you allow Him to fill your heart with joy and love, I'm afraid you'll be living less of a life than my crippled granddaughter.

Non siate timorosi di parlare, quando sapete di essere nel giusto. La paura non è mai stata fonte di sicurezza. Parlate chiaramente e lottate per i vostri diritti, finchè potete.

Non siate timorosi di parlare, quando sapete di essere nel giusto. La paura non è mai stata fonte di sicurezza. Parlate chiaramente e lottate per i vostri diritti, finché potete.

No one alone can attain truth.

If we treat Socrates as an internalized feature of the mind, then this is its first and constant order of business: uprooting false conceits of knowledge.

socrates. Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can, and, when I die, to die as well as I can. And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same. Gorgias 526de

On a Socratic view it's never time to give up. We do better by accepting that the search probably has no end but going on anyway as if it might. For even if you can't possess the truth, you can get closer to it.

What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.