Quotes About Truth

Whoever follows Him "will have the light of life.

Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

Because I thought that darkness had only one or two faces. It took me a long time to learn that it has many, and that its worst face masquerades as light.

Good-bye, O fairest world, good-bye", I soliloquized. "O blue gem in the heavens, where mankind dwells in love, and no man's hand is lifted against another, and the gifted realize their every dream, and all things sing, and the light grows gold when the bells ring." "Good poetry needn't rhyme", said Xue. "Besides, you shouldn't tell lies." "Lies? No, I was just dreaming.

This in turn leaves the soul more frustrated and lonely than ever. Thus the primal lie begets destruction—worst of all, it does so in the name of love.

I see only light, Daddo." "Then I fear for you, my son. For a man who sees only light will stumble over the things that lie in shadows." "Then does a man who looks only at shadows not also stumble, for lack of seeing light?

A soul must be well seasoned to discern among voices. There are many voices that come to us from the unknown, and the Evil One is capable of disguises. It is important always to ask which voice speaks the truth with love.

Apologize for what?" she replied in a deceptively quiet voice. "For your particular perspective on the truth? It is a habit of human beings to crystallize around themselves a lens through which they may safely view the experiences of life.

A degraded word is a blow to the mind. A true, illuminating word is a seed. The fruitfulness of the seed depends on the soil in which it is planted.

Now he saw demons blinding millions of souls who were rewarded with pleasures and reassurance, for the way home was the long, hard path, and the gate to the path was narrow. The gate was not locked, but few would choose it, for the truth had been degraded wherever it was not denied altogether. Darkness was called light, and light called darkness. Good was called evil, and evil good.

Ah yes, but unity can be authentic only if it is founded upon truth. We cannot pretend that there are two conflicting truths, both of which are right. This is madness. It destroys the interior unity of the human person and the meaning of personhood.

Perhaps there are places within us, places of true home, that do not yet exist and are carved from the stone of our hearts only by suffering. Perhaps. Who will tell me if this is true? For if it is not, then I am subject to the cruelest delusion of all. Yet, if I were to know, I would cease to be vulnerable, and I might make my home in exile.

tell you, your heart will be fully broken, and then only will you find your true heart.

Eat bread and salt, and speak the truth' ", said Father Sergius. "That is one of our old proverbs.

Had simply everyone rewritten history to suit his prejudices? Was most of it, perhaps all of it, a myth? If so, what was real?

It's something else, something in me that wants things always to remain the same, always safe. It's a basic fear of life, I guess. I've never admitted that to anyone, and I guess I've never admitted it to myself, but it's the truth.

Are we just looking for a sympathetic ear to agree with us, or are we asking for people to speak the truth to us? I can remember many times being angry with someone because he spoke the truth to me. How about you?

Books were another form of fog, dipping down to infiltrate and insidiously undermine the authoritative, official version, showing it up for the sham it was. He knew the stories were all made up, the characters puppets, the outcome predetermined, so why did they seem more real than reality? And why was no one else shocked by this gleeful scandal?

love doesn't have to feel good in order to exist.

The truth is no excuse for a boring story".

Names are strange and special gifts. There are names you give to yourself and names you show to the world, names that stay for a short while and names that remain with you forever, names that come from things you do and names that you receive as presents from other people. If your name is true, it is who you are.

Dreams have long lives. They are not susceptible to logic; they are dreamed in defiance of reason. And they are immaterial; even as our bodies wither and fail, teaching us the truth of impermanence, our dreams persist, and renew themselves.

This is one of the principal reasons people seek out spiritual teachers. They figure there is more to most things than meets the eye.

From an intuitionistic standpoint, mathematics, when correctly carried on, would not need any justification from without, a buttress from the side or a foundation from below: it would wear its own justification on its face.