Quotes About Truth

But... If you hide the truth to keep Mika from suffering, the situation will never change, will it? I think real friendship would be to let him face his own suffering, and help him conquer it. Isn't that when he really needs you most?

Why do I get angry when I am insulted? A: Because you entertain the verity of the insult.

When the mind thinks that it knows, it creates a story. And it makes the person believe the fairy tale. But when it is confused, it has no story to tell you. So you are, for a brief moment, free to learn the truth. Independent of the mind.

The man who knows that he lives in a prison will find a way to break free of it. But the one who believes that he is free while being imprisoned will remained imprisoned forever.

Because right and wrong are societo-religious creations. They have no basis in reality.

The man who toils for toils sake does so only to satisfy himself that he has "toiled," as the world as told him to do. And if he does not find Truth, he is content to say that he did the necessary toil and still did not find it, and thus it wasn't meant to be.

One can live the whole of his life within it. It is way to accessing the whole of one's genius. It is the way to unending peace. It is the holy grail of human existence.

You've always been told to fight for your freedom Of mind. But the truth is this: the greatest freedom in the world is freedom From mind.

Spirituality is as bastardized as religion.

Man's greatest dilemma is that he lives in a prison and he believes that he is free.

M: Man lives in a world whose noise is so wide and deep that it requires either an extraordinary DNA or a cataclysmic chance occurrence for him to turn away from the noise and seek The Truth. It is almost impossible for him to deem that all that he has been told for his entire life and all that he hears on a daily basis is completely false and full of lies. Monumentally rare are such men. But this is the only way. For without it, one is destined to a life of misery, turmoil, and anxiety.

sealed zinc coffins, like the fallen Russian soldiers in Afghanistan – so that no one would know how they had really died.

History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren't there, which may be the same thing.

If you are true, your words will be true. An untrue person cannot say true words.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.

Objectief' heeft voor velen de betekenis 'gunstig'. Een objectief boek over Zuid-Afrika of Rusland is een boek waarin over die landen geen kwaad gesproken wordt.

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

In a late interview, Belle herself characterized her life as if it were one long sin that needed to be confessed—with one pointed exception. "I have lied, sworn, killed (I guess) and I have stolen," she said. "But . . . I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman. . . . Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

I do not mind mankind's crimes, but I do mind its hypocrisy.

I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life.

My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out.