Quotes About Truth

Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was." - Rumi

The boundary between the real and the unreal had been let down in Foote's mind, and between the comings and goings of the cloud-shadows and the dark errands of the ghosts there was no longer any way of making a selection. He had entered the cobwebby borderland between the human and the animal, where nothing is ever more than half true, and only as much as half true for the moment. ("There Shall Be No Darkness")

I've spoken the truth. The truth can't be unsaid.

Truth is a lagging indicator in politics.

For scores of millions of Americans, Clinton's "caring" was more important than his lying.

There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more wars they will get.

A lie that is accepted by a sufficient number of ignorant voters becomes a political truth.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

They tell me that truth lies somewhere at the bottom of a well, and at virtually the door of our home is a most notable if long dried well. Our location is thus quite favorable, if we but keep patience.

Yet I am content. For I have served that dream which I elected to be serving. It may be that no man is royal, and that no god is divine, and that our mothers and our wives have not any part in holiness. Oh, yes, it very well may be that I have lost honor and applause, and that I take destruction, through following after a dream which has in it no truth. Yet my dream was noble; and its nobility contents me.

To believe that we know nothing assuredly, and cannot ever know anything assuredly, is to take too much on faith.

And how should I know whether or not I speak the truth?" the God asked of him, "since I am but the illusion of an old woman, as you have so frequently proved by logic.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

Have men always been terrified of their true nature? Is all history a record of their denials of themselves?

Paranoia, I tell myself, is a man with the facts.

As such, we should pray, as Macrina Weiderkehr prayed so eloquently, "O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful.

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

If you mean to make your side of the argument appear plausible, do not prejudice the people against what you think truth by your passionate manner of defending it.

Do not sit dumb in company; it will be ascribed either to pride, cunning, or stupidity: give your opinion modestly, but freely; hear that of others with candour; and ever endeavour to find out, and to communicate truth.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

Truth never changes; it is the same now, yesterday, and forever, in itself; but our relations towards truth may change, for that which is hidden from us today may become known to us tomorrow.

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