Quotes About Truth

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Truth is a great flirt.

It is easier to tell the truth: you don't have to remember anything.

Saying, I do not know,' constitutes one half of knowledge" is both a Prophetical tradition and a saying found in Graeco-Arabic wisdom literature. The phrase most widely recommended for use was lâ adrî "I do not know." Aristotle was described as saying that he was so fond of using it that he used it also in cases where he possessed the required knowledge.

The knowledge scholars possess causes them to act. Eventually, they will be sought after by the people, but as true scholars, they will flee from all the worldly demands made on them. High praise is due to the man who speaks and knows, who listens and retains, who retains and acts.

Knowledge without action is like a bow without a string." A relationship as close as blood relationship must be established between knowledge and action. Knowledge is acquired, because it is a ladder leading up to action, which is true action only if it leads to God.

Jetzt kommt die Pointe aller Pointen, die mir der Herr im Schlaf verliehen hat.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

only those minds can be convinced of the truth which are themselves capable of sharing in its lofty quality.

Your words are spirit and life. Only say one and he will be healed.

No one can increase the volume in the pulpit to such a level as to muffle the echo of lost convictions.

Listening with your body, participating in the context, is so powerful precisely because it removes one of the greatest tools of listening and the greatest potential for bias: the question. Often, as we're articulating the questions we ask in field research, the patterns we think we'll see or the patterns we'd like to see start to get embedded in the question. In these cases, the question can become the enemy of the truth.

Belief is a poor substitute for certain knowledge.

The truth is that our competition is anyone our customers compare us to.

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.

There is a close relationship between truth and trust.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

It came to me ever so slowly that the best way to know the truth was to begin trusting what my inner truth was… and trying to share it—not right away—only after I had worked hard at trying to understand it.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

The pendulum he really faced was that of choice. His mind could swing one way, tick, and meet in foresight the shame of swallowed truth and swallowed pride, all the humiliation of an enforced recanting. And if he swung his thoughts the other way, tock, there they confronted the breaking agony of the boot or the rack or the slower destruction in a buried cell.

One can't say that figures lie. But figures, as used in financial arguments, seem to have the bad habit of expressing a small part of the truth forcibly, and neglecting the other part, as do some people we know.

It seems that the immature mind has a regrettable tendency to believe, as actually true, that which it only hopes to be true.

Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.