Quotes About Truth

Besides, what is pretty, anyway?" she continues. "Eyes? What does the color matter, as long as the ones you love can see themselves shining there? A mouth? Wide or narrow, so long as it speaks the truth.

Because death is the only reality, and I'm a realist.

What eyes can tell you in a minute, a mouth will never say in a day.

When you get down to it, isn't the truth better than alibis, flim-flam, or makeshift excuses?

There's an old saying, you know, that if you scratch a secret, you'll find a thief.

sometimes we need someone else to open our eyes to what's really going on in our lives!

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.

Perhaps it is true that a representation of only the female side of things - which tends to be one long protest and complaint rather than the portrayal of a full and substantive existence - is limited. But an equally relevant question, one much less frequently asked, is: Is it more limited than the prevailing male view of things, which when not taken as absolute truth - is at least seen as "serious," relevant and important?

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

We should not attach to some fancy ideas or to some beautiful things. We should not seek for something good. The truth is always near at hand, within your reach.

When we realize the everlasting truth of "everything changes" and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. We should find perfection in imperfection... The eternal exists because of non-eternal existence... We should find the truth in this world, through our difficulties, through our suffering... Pleasure is not different from difficulty. Good is not different from bad.

There is no gap between the ignorant and the wise. A foolish person is a wise person; a wise person is a foolish person.

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another. Zen masters are very straightforward.

When we first hear that everything is a tentative existence, most of us are disappointed; but this disappointment comes from a wrong view of man and nature. It is because our way of observing things is deeply rooted in our self-centered ideas that we are disappointed when we find everything has only a tentative existence. But when we actually realize this truth, we will have no suffering.

it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves. We should find the truth in this world, through our difficulties, through our suffering.

Without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself as you are is the most important thing.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, change. That everything changes is the basic truth of each existence. When we realize the everlasting truth of "everything changes" and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.

When we express our true nature, we are human beings.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

An inquisitive mind is the only means of travelling from the world of expectations to Reality