Quotes About Truth

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed.

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn't 'democratic'—it's something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

Nature itself cannot err

Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

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.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.