Quotes About Truth

The first obligation is to Truth, and that a Truth derived from an apprehension of an order more than natural or material. I think that man who will not acknowledge the Author of their being have no sanction for truth Dedication to an abiding Truth and to the spiritual aspirations of humanity excised, the pursuit of power and the gratification of concupiscence are the logical occupations of rational men in a world that is merely human and merely natural.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Iwould say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

If it's not true for you, it's not true.

I believed the stories he told were true for him,

The only thing that we can say is really real, truly true, is pure experience. What is real is the flow, the constant but ever-changing pageant comprised of minds and things.

Maybe that's when bad scripts are written, when you choose the theme first. I consider that I've something to say when I've thought of a person, a moment, a single beat of the heart, that I think is true and interesting, and therefore should be seen.

There is no higher authority.

With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back.

With lies you may get ahead in the world — but you can never go back.

Carrie didn't answer because it was true and she

Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed

The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.

Assertion as comfort, certain as death.

a little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.

The truth is, in winter, the earth rejects us.

In the realm of spiritual transformation, the questions we are willing to ask ourselves are more important than the answers we think we know. At

Most people do not see things as they are; rather, they see things as they are. Richard Rohr

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

Heal our inner sight, O God, that we may know the difference between good and evil. Open our eyes that we may see what is true and what is false. Restore us to wisdom that we may be well in our souls, Restore us to wisdom that we and our world may be well.[2]

I fell on my feet and found my bearings because of these. I could talk to them. They listened and answered, for or against, but always weighing what they had heard, unlike my mother, who used language for manipulation, not to express an opinion or state a fact. What sounded like a fact might be a lie, and every opinion was tailored for the moment.

For shame doesn't arise from the shameful action, but from discovery and exposure.

Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more. In science, poetry or describing a journey, accuracy is all you can do. Saying it as you saw.