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Quotes About Truth

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.
~ Densey Clyne
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
~ Terry Pratchett
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!
~ Neal Shusterman
Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
~ William Butler Yeats
The entire truth about everything can be known through your vibratory awareness. And this vibratory awareness comes to you through your attention, which is enlightened by your Spirit.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
~ Shane Claiborne
Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.
~ Dan Fogelberg
Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?
~ Charles Dickens
Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights.
~ Amit Ray
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
~ Thomas Hobbes
The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.
~ Virgil Suarez
Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
~ David Landes
The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.
~ E. O. Wilson
Conscience is wiser than science.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.
~ Stephen King, The Waste Lands