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Quotes About Truth

Nature's perfectly cruel in the most just ways
~ Ahmed Korayem
People tend to deny their personal truths because it makes them feel ugly. People will do anything to feel beautiful, even if it means having to lie to themselves
~ Ahmed Korayem
To deny expression is a form of lying and a mode of suicide.
~ Ahmed Korayem
I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.
~ Ai Weiwei
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope. -from Postcards from No Man's Land
~ Aidan Chambers
Unfortunately, ..., all too often a joke tells the truth.
~ Aidan Chambers
On contact with sensuous experience, the intellect is able to generate first principles, and, with their help, it gradually builds up what it knows. But it is thus able to construct truth only because it is itself a participation in Truth. The mind is the light of divine truth -- analogically speaking, by way of participation. It is a participated likeness of the uncreated light in which the ideas of all things dwell.
~ Aidan Nichols
The passing on of Tradition includes, therefore, the passing on of fitting language about its content, and it is this language -- not Tradition itself -- which "develops," in so doing not changing apostolic truth as consciously entertained by the mind of the Church but amplifying its expression.
~ Aidan Nichols
To know beings is implicitly to know God, since all things are in some manner likenesses of divine being, which, in its communicative outflow in creation, shows itself for what it is.
~ Aidan Nichols
I have heard the most fantastical gossip about myself and each time I thought, "If only my life were that exciting, fun, outrageous, and sexy". Then again my memory wasn't so sharp when I took drugs. Some of what was said about me might be true. At worst it gave me jerk-off material.
~ Aiden Shaw
'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
~ Aimé Césaire
The truth is that Lautréamont had only to look the iron man forged by capitalist society squarely in the eye to perceive the monster, the everyday monster, his hero.
~ Aimé Césaire
As long as we Believe in Myth, we can never Realize the Truth.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Chicken or Egg, what came first on earth? What was the one that first took birth? If you get to the bottom of the root, you will realize the Divine Truth.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Do you know who you truly are? Or are you from the Truth afar? If the Truth you must find... first, you must Transcend the Mind.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Miserable are those who Believe in the Myth. Blissful are those who Realize the Truth.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
One Million years OR One Billion Years- What is the Earth's Age? when we Realize the Truth, we know it is just a Virtual Stage !
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
we are not what we seem to be Truth is... We are ENERGY !
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
We are Prisoners of this Body. We are Prisoners of this Mind. Who are we? On Realization, the Truth we will find!
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Your Name is only your Identity, not your Reality.Realize this Truth and from Misery, be Free!
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
But no matter, because we as a nation now take every tweet, every offhanded Facebook comment, or shotgun aside as the gospel truth of a person's sense of the world, when in reality most are typed late at night when people are intoxicated or sleep-deprived or just got in a terrible fight with their spouse.
~ Aisha Tyler
Each of us can know only a part of the whole that constitutes truth.
~ Ajahn Brahm
We never really get away with anything.
~ Ajahn Chah