Quotes About Truth

Denial and affirmation are games which people play. There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza A fool: A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

Saying of the Prophet Truth Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

One lie will keep out forty truths.

Voice in the night A voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

Even if false gold makes a man happy: At the mint it will be identified.

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

When the human being says: 'It is not true...' He may mean: 'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.' Or: 'I don't like it.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.

Saying of the Prophet. Lies, promises, trust He is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust.

It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience of truth that the Sufis have always reposed their trust. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'.

Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.