Quotes About Truth

We are right to trust descriptions of Jesus given by those most disrupted by Jesus.

No man can follow Christ and go astray.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.

I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please — that is as they please or displease us.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

The common-place critic . . . believes that truth lies in the middle, between the extremes of right and wrong.

Man is, so to speak, an endless and infinitely varied repetition: and if we know what one man feels, we so far know what a thousand feel in the sanctuary of their being. Our feeling of general humanity is at once an aggregate of a thousand different truths, and it is also the same truth a thousand times told.

The grandeur of [great artists] works was an argument with them, not to stop short, but to proceed. They could have no higher excitement or satisfaction than in the exercise of their art and endless generation of truth and beauty. Success prompts to exertion; and habit facilitates success.

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.

Is it possible to view life through such a non-dualistic consciousness, while continuing life as we live it today? Unity and A Course in Miracles both assure us that it is possible, and try to teach us this Truth, and to bring this Truth into our daily lives by retraining our minds.