Quotes About Truth

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

The rose called by any other name would smell as sweet.

Truth cannot be partial; it is for the good of all. Finally

That which is true must be infinite and eternal. That is the one test of truth. It never decays, it is always the same.

Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, because you have been made to believe it from your childhood; but reason it all out, and after you have analysed it, then, if you find that it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it, and help others to live up to it.

stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.

The world is neither good nor bad; the world is the world. The

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I.

There was a stump of a tree, and in the dark, a thief came that way and said, "That is a policeman." A young man waiting for his beloved saw it and thought that it was his sweetheart. A child who had been told ghost stories took it for a ghost and began to shriek. But all the time it was the stump of a tree. We see the world as we are. Do

Life is itself religion.

Truth itself is always simple. Complexity is due to man's ignorance.

It is true that the Upanishads have this one theme before them: "????????? ???? ???????? ???????? ???????? ???? - What is that knowing which we know everything else?

Truth requires no prop to make it stand.

Freedom is to lose all illusions.

Vivekananda once remarked: In trying to practice religion, eighty percent of people turn cheats and about fifteen percent go mad; only the remaining five percent attain the immediate knowledge of the infinite Truth.

In trying to practice religion, eighty percent of people turn cheats and about fifteen percent go mad; only the remaining five percent attain the immediate knowledge of the infinite Truth.

If there is a God we must see Him, if there is a soul we must perceive it; otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

The cow never tells a lie, and the stone never steals, but, nevertheless, the cow remains a cow and the stone a stone. Man steals and man tells lies, and again it is man that becomes a god.

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I. 177) PATIENCE

To the Hindu, man is not travelling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions, from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realise the Infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress; and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength, till it reaches the Glorious Sun.

And here is the test of truth: Anything that makes you weak physically, intelectually, and spiritually, reject as poison; there is no life in it, it cannot be true.

Truth never dreams.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

Truth, and nothing but truth is the watchword of the Advaitist. "??????? ???? ??????? ?????? ????? ????? ??????? --Truth alone triumphs, and not untruth. Through truth alone the way to Devayana lies.