Quotes About Truth

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

Therefore, it is my belief that Blind Benny, even with his poor sightless eyes, is the only person I know who can see with perfect clarity. Because Benny is able to see beyond appearances.

In this confusing state of affairs when each fact is immediately contrasted with a counter-fact and everyone is branded a liar, when the word truth can be used only in apology and within quotation marks, it seems that the only object that can claim total honesty is fiction itself.

No forgiveness for lies.

The truth hurts for a little while. A lie hurts forever.

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. —You (also, Nikola Tesla)

Censorship and government: A good government always tells the truth. A good government is always honest. A good government censors out unjust material. A good government always does what's just. A good government is required to always give it's citizens an appropriate amount of freedom.

Don't get mad at me for telling you the truth, get mad at yourself for not doing the right thing.

Engross what is just, repudiate what is unjust.

Everything you do in life should be done as just as possible.

Just because something is the law, doesn't make it right.

Justice is based on reason, the truth, the facts, what is fair, not emotion.

Justice should never shake hands with corruption.

Most people will show you courtesy, but in a fraudulent, untruthful, way.

Never pledge your allegiance to anyone, to anything, other than to what is just.

The truth about insults: If somebody unjustly insults you it means nothing, except that maybe they're assholes, or maybe even they're incompetent, but if somebody justly insults you, then it means something.

You don't want to be too hard or too easy, you don't want to be wrong when it comes to crime, you want to be just, morally right.

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart.

In all ten directions of the universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same. What can ever be lost? What can be attained? If we attain something, it was there from the beginning of time. If we lose something, it is hiding somewhere near us.

If there is beauty, there must be ugliness; If there is right, there must be wrong. Wisdom and ignorance are complementary, And illusion and enlightenment cannot be separated. This is an old truth, don't think it was discovered recently. "I want this, I want that" Is nothing but foolishness. I'll tell you a secret - "All things are impermanent!

Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one will not allow himself to wrong others, he will wrong himself. If he doesn't come across anyone to lie to, he will lie to himself in his own thoughts.

I'll keep waiting, for as long as it takes, for this war to be seen in everyone's eyes for what it always was, the most filthy, savage, useless obsenity that ever there was.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

The nature of consciousness is to define what it calls reality. It's all of your observations that combine to form what it is you think reality is. God plays dice with the universe, and you be the dice, man.