Quotes About Truth

Geçmi?in ac? gerçekleriyle yüzle?meden, hesapla?madan gelece?e nas?l ilerleyece?iz ki?

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

Just because Oprah said it, that doesn't make it true.

And in those changes to the Scriptures of your faith you only prove that you didn't know what you were doing in the first place. Picking and choosing your faith promises the ultimate freedom to be who you want and do what you want, but eventually it will only prove to you that to live for yourself and to make your law based on your own happiness is to become the slave of your imperfect self and to be tortured and tormented by your own pride and failure.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

Nothing is as old as the truth, and nothing is as new as the truth.

The Sufi recognizes the knowledge of self as the essence of all religions; he traces it in every religion, he sees the same truth in each, and therefore he regards all as one. Hence he can realize the saying of Jesus; 'I and my Father are one.' The difference between creature and Creator remains on his lips, not in his soul.

What is rooted out in the quest of truth is ignorance; it is entirely removed from the heart, and the outlook becomes wide; as wide as the Eye of God; therein is born the divine Spirit, the spirit, which is called Divinity.

Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels

Es gibt zweierlei: Wissen und Sein. Es ist leicht, die Wahrheit zu wissen, aber sehr schwer, Wahrheit zu sein. Nicht im Wissen der Wahrheit erfüllt sich der Zweck des Lebens; er erfüllt sich dadurch, dass man Wahrheit ist.

for only the eye of sincerity can see. The eye of curiosity has the cataract of doubt, and is blind already.

It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself. However, every man's pursuit is according to his state of evolution, and so each soul is in pursuit of something—but he does not know where it leads him.

It is I who was, if there were any. What I had thought to be myself was not myself, but was my experience. I am all that there is, and it is myself who will be, whoever there will be. It is I who am the source, the traveler, and the goal of this existence. 'Verily truth is all the religion there is; and it is truth which will save.

It is easy to know truth, but most difficult to be truth. It is not in knowing truth that life's purpose is accomplished; life's purpose is accomplished in being truth.

The voice therefore naturally expresses the attitude of mind whether true or false, sincere or insincere.

Belief is of four kinds. The first kind is a belief accepted because it is believed by all. The second is a belief accepted because it is believed by someone in whom the believer trusts. The third belief is the belief that reason helps one to believe. The fourth belief is conviction, of which one is as sure as if one were an eyewitness

All situations of life are tests to bring out the real and the false.

Mit jedem Schritt hin zur Erkenntnis der Wahrheit, fühlt man sich selbstsicherer. Je mehr Zweifel überwunden werden, und je mehr das Selbstvertrauen wächst, desto stärker wird der eigene Wille; und je näher man zur Wahrheit gelangt, desto mehr Licht wird man sehen. Was ist dieses Licht? Es ist das Licht der Selbst-Verwirklichung. (S. 57)

for to know reality is to know all that is to be known.

Every seeker after truth must remember one thing: that the first step in the path of truth is to become true to oneself.

Für die erleuchtete Seele wird das Leben selbst zur Heiligen Schrift.