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Quotes About Truth

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
~ John Bradshaw
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
~ Joseph Campbell
It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.
~ Melody Beattie
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.
~ Douglas Coupland
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
~ Soren Kierkegaard
You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.
~ Will Smith
The world is kept alive only by heretics.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
~ David Jenkins
All beliefs are bald ideas.
~ Francis Picabia
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it.
~ Joe Vitale
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
~ Mark Twain
Seeing is not always believing.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.
~ May Sarton
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.
~ Rollo May
More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
~ Vance Havner
Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin