Quotes About Truth

Death will get you sober.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Entonces, ¿quedo con él mañana?— le pregunta esperanzada. — ¡Pues claro!— responde Iris—. Si se trata de algo verdadero no hay que andarse con triquiñuelas y, si no lo es, no hay triquiñuela que valga.

History can never be covered up.

Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.

If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right, it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument. Forget the years; forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature

Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don't really in fact know it?

If right were ultimately right, its differentiation from not-right would require no debate.

To use a horse to show that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse...

Thus, the Radiance of Drift and Doubt is the sage's only map. He makes no definition of what is right but instead entrusts it to the everyday function of each thing. This is what I call the Illumination of the Obvious.

The True Men of old used the eye to look at the eye, the ear to look at the ear, the heart to recover the heart. Such men as that when they were level were true to the carpenter's line, when they were altering stayed on course.

Jos haluaa näyttää oikeaksi sen, minkä ne kieltävät, tai vääräksi sen, minkä ne myöntävät, ei ole parempaa keinoa kuin käyttää järjen valoa.

Because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.

I don't care if it hurts, I'm tired of lies and all these games, I've reached a point in life, and no longer can I be this way, don't come crying to me, I too have shed my share of tears. I'm moving on, yes I'm grooving on.

As the sun is above all clouds, the truth is above all lies. When the sun appears, the truth will become visible.

As there is only One Truth there is also only One Straight path between two points. The Truth is therefore the Straight Path.

Don't let the view gives you a wrong vision

The truth is strong even if those who support it are weak. Any lie is weak even if those who support it are strong.

I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is ... to tell the truth.

The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.