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Quotes About Truth

Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries for ever;
~ Swami Vivekananda
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls." ? Swami Vivekananda
~ Swami Vivekananda
T ruth can be stated in a thousand different ways Yet each one can be true
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nothing the night said about the morning turned out to be true.
~ Sy Safransky
For what are most of our stories but cartoon versions of the past? Our personal history is the well-worn version of ourselves we've settled for, in which we come across as pitiful stick figures, "bored to death with ourselves and with the world," as don Juan said.
~ Sy Safransky
You have to plant doubt […] It's like planting a seed that takes time to germinate. It might look like nothing is happening, but then suddenly the doubt will flower into some kind of action […] Patience is what is needed. People need to hear the truth, not just once but again and again. That's what the politics of change is all about, patience and repetition, until the truth sinks in.
~ Sybil Claiborne
Jargon is the replacement for the naturally metaphorical vernacular of the people. If their speech reflects their thinking, then there are many professionals and politicians, trade union leaders and civil servants who know not what they do. They are not merely neglecting a glorious heritage of wonderful language; they are obscuring the paths of truth.
~ Sybil Marshall
A biographer is an artist under oath.
~ Sybille Bedford
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
~ Sydney Harris
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
~ Sydney Madwed
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
~ Sydney Schanberg
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
~ Sydney Smith
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
~ Sylvester Stallone
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
~ Sylvia Ashton-Warner
You can't censor human nature.
~ Sylvia Beach
Knowing the truth brings happiness.
~ Sylvia Boorstein
It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.
~ Sylvia Browne
There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that.
~ Sylvia Engdahl
Der Herr Gott ist raffiniert aber Boshaft ist Er nicht
~ Sylvia Nasar
For each one of us lives in his microcosm, the solidity of this world is a mere game of mirrors, there can be no absolute existence for what is apprehended differently by all.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
Mes apsimetame, jog gyventume, ir gyvename, jog apsimestume
~ Sylvia Waugh
We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.
~ Symmachus
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
~ Syrus
You go through that Gospel of John. He is centering everything in Himself. "I am the Way; I am the Truth; I am the Life; I am the Shepherd; I am the Vine; I am the Resurrection." It is a Person. It is that which lies behind everything. Christianity is Christ. Christ is Christianity. That is where it all begins and it never departs from HIM. The development of the Christian life is only the development of Jesus Christ in the life. From:
~ T. Austin-Sparks