Quotes About Truth

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

I used to think you took my breath away, but then I realised I was just suffocated by your bullshit. Rainbows always come after the darkest storm.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth — that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. 

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

But we must be aware that art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse. Christianity is true; things and actions and human endeavor only get their meaning from their relationship to God.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full moment in all journeying, the time when girths are tightened in preparation for the miles that lie ahead.

Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. —SAUL BELLOW

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

Enlightenment is seeing things as they are rather than as we imagine

Our only limiting factor is our false beliefs

Reality is what it is

The answers we seek are not out there. They are found when we bring our attention inward. Our higher self is already within us. We were born with it. It is who we truly are. It is our essence. We just need to wake up. The question is not, what do we need to do in order to achieve enlightenment. The question is, what do we need to let go of in order for enlightenment to flow.

The truth is always the truth

The truth is within all of us. We all come from the same source. We are part of it. And therefore, we have knowledge of it. When we awaken, and we all will eventually, then we will know what we have always known. We are one.

Things are often not as they seem, but always as they should be.

Thoughts about reality are not reality

Thoughts and emotions replace reality with illusion. Both are subject to exposure by truth