Quotes About Truth

In fact, if one reads attentively what Sri Aurobindo has written, all that he has written, one would have the answer to every question.

You must love the truth more than anything else, and your love of the truth must grow. You must be able to feel the truth as distinct from other forms of stimulation—self-validation, pleasure, fulfillment or anything else—for the truth has its own experience, which is unique. As you are able to identify it, value it and experience it again and again, you will want to return to it.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth

Aber er hatte lange genug gelebt, um zu wissen, dass alle Zeichen trügen und dass wir in unsrer Eifersucht, trotz ihrer hundert Augen, oft noch mehr in die Irre gehen, als in der Blindheit unsres Vertrauens.

variety is the spice of life, a truth which, of course, every happy marriage seems to contradict.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

She knew the truth: that Frankenstein had created a female monster, and that the female monster had escaped. And she hid that truth. Knowing of Justine, she did the best she could, for another woman. She erased her from the story.

You would not lie—you are almost incapable of it. Your disposition would not allow such a thing.

Mary, it is sometimes permissible to lie to others, but it is never wise to lie to oneself.

What did you lie to me

Well, here is one who, whatever her defects, probably does what she believes as nearly as possible.

When we are cast from a group or a condition we have still the companionship of all that is. Nature is not ungenerous. Its winds and stars are fellows with you. Let the soul be but gentle and receptive, and this vast truth will come home — not in set phrases, perhaps, but as a feeling, a comfort, which, after all, is the last essence of knowledge. In the universe peace is wisdom.

So you who seek for deep truth, for the mystery and sacredness of life, don't give up looking just because the externals seemed to be the opposite of what they should be. Keep searching, for it is to be found. You will find that pearl of great price, in fact you will be led to it. So don't give up! One day, you will be given that which will set your heart on fire and you will become a new person, the person you were always meant to be.

Darkness is always trying to overcome the light and what we know from Advent and from the resurrection is that darkness cannot overcome the light. And that is a truth that can carry you into bliss and hope all the days of your life. (p. 50)

People should know more than what was or will be. People must know that which must never be." -- Theodore Sturgeon

Si jamais quelqu'un était capable de retracer exactement ce qu'il voit et ressent en faisant seulement dix mètres dans la rue, nous obtiendrions une image si déformée, si obscure, tellement subjective qu'il est difficile de s'en faire une idée, même vague. Et personne ne regarde jamais autour de soi avec attention, jusqu'au moment où il vient ici.

The truth is where the sculptor's chisel chipped away the lie.

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.