Quotes About Truth

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

Nobody can be set free from a problem until they're willing to admit they have one.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Your excuses are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

True or true? Yes or yes?

The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.

Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.

Learn to accept life in toto. A perfect life is only in the dream world. This, my dear, with all it's heartaches, is it. Our world.

There is nothing so special or boring nor there are any weak or strong things in this world. It is we and our surficial perception that creates these types of environment

All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.

Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.

In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.

The truth may set you free. It won't fill your fuel tank.

Information is the most valuable commodity on the surface of the earth.