Quotes About Truth

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

I am the only real truth I know.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectual-ism and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only.

Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.