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Quotes About Truth

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.
~ Saint Basil
What you believe you experience.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
~ George Sand
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
~ Pope John Paul II
The only real experience that counts, is your own.
~ Terence McKenna
The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.
~ Hugo von Hofmannsthal
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
~ Abba Eban
What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.
~ John Gardner
Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away.
~ Ralph Marston
On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.
~ John Denver
Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.
~ Barry Long
Reality is the completion of experience.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
The world ultimately is what we say it is.
~ David Friedrich Strauss
I never deny a true experience in one shot.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
My experience is the opposite.
~ Byron Katie
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.
~ Unknown
You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.
~ Charlie Peacock
Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.
~ Jim Carrey
The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.
~ David Bentley Hart
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
~ Leonardo da Vinci