Quotes About Truth

Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape. During

We turn our emotions into frozen objects and invest them with truth, and as a result they have so much power over us.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn't mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth.

Dharma is the study of what is , and the only way you can find out what is true is through studying yourself.

El miedo es una reacción natural al acercarse a la verdad.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

We seem doomed to suffer simply because we have a deep-seated fear of how things really are.

Sabemos que todo es impermanente, que todo acaba agotándose. Aunque aceptemos esta verdad con el intelecto, emocionalmente nos produce una profunda aversión. Deseamos que todo sea permanente y esperamos que así sea. Nuestra tendencia natural es buscar seguridad, creer que podemos encontrarla.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

If you have to shout to prove your point, you're probably wrong.

A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form.

But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.

Red-hot anger takes away a lot of the heartache.

Brastias. My friend." Uh-oh, this couldn't be good. "Do you lie to me?""Uh . . . no.""See? That's a lie!

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.