Quotes About Truth

Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can become one with the Truth, but you cannot adequately explain it.

For the person who is grounded in the timeless truth of the universe, there is no life and no death. He or she can experience eternal joy without being limited by the definitions of good and evil. The essence of Oneness always exists within us.

Life is a long journey meant for leaping beyond loneliness to find unchanging freedom and truth.

A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature.

Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.

While sleeping, we're free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

Colliding with the bright light Of my true self, My illusions scream loudly, Themselves illusions Created by other illusions, Finally knowing that Deep within me Beneath the shell Lies the sacred beauty Of my true self.

Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.

At the very moment when we refuse to follow our conscience and refuse to be truthful, we become all the more aware of the presence of conscience and the absolute truthfulness inside.

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

The intention to be absolutely truthful and the willingness to put the benefit of all before personal benefit hold the power to change the world.

Telling you and putting it on the front pages of the newspapers is just about the same thing!

The truth is a stranger...Not always welcome by daylight.

Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been seagulls... For me they will always be glorious birds.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

Tell me what you know. • Tell me what you don't know. • Then tell me what you think. • Always distinguish which from which.

Leaders need to know ground truth and not just what they get from reports and staffs.

Butch knew before he walked in that he was entering the lion's den, and he wasn't surprised when he got thrown out. Word quickly spread around the Pentagon, as it always does when things like that happen. Not long after I heard about it I ran into Butch in a hallway. As we walked along, I offered him comforting words. "Hey," he said quietly, "he don't pay me to give him happy talk.

People seem to be awfully gullible. They'll believe anything. ~in The NPR Interviews, 1996, edited by Robert Siegel

because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.

In reality it is not the mistakes we make that are responsible for tense human relations, it is the lack of courage in admitting them.

Human intelligence is a function of man's evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely human.

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.