Quotes About Truth

Majority has no brain. It is just a momentum. Truth, kindness, human values, and morality are more important than majority. Always recheck majority with morality.

Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions.

Our true nature is divine and eternal. Our true purpose of life is to awaken and realize that permanent divinity that is within us.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it's just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

The truth, Your Honor, is that the immigrant feels at home in guilt... the guilt of having abandoned my parents. A slippery slope, this. My father, my mother, my motherland, my mother tongue.

You think this will solve all our problems. It's magical thinking, Michael. It's the way a child thinks.

Julian] was reckoned the reincarnation of Titus the son of Vespasian, in the glorious outcome of his campaigns very like Trajan, as merciful as Antoninus, and in his striving after truth and perfection the equal of Marcus Aurelius, on whom he endeavoured to model his own actions and character.

Heterophemize (v.) To say something different from what you mean to say. Think back on all the things you've said in life that you truly wish you hadn't. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just claim afterward that you had been heterophemizing, and be instantly forgiven? Homodoxian

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth.

Almost everyone traverses their lifespan, from birth to death, with eyes closed. Even you and I, my dear Shmuel. With eyes closed. If we open our eyes for just a moment, a great and terrible cry will burst forth from us and we shall scream and never stop. And if we don't cry out day and night, that's a sign that our eyes are closed.

We need precise words for Jesus. Otherwise, Christian theology is built on a foundation of sand.

As Bill Coffin put it, "We worship the Word made flesh, not the Word made words.

I'm not my brother's keeper" is the lie infecting our streets and our neighborhoods (Genesis 4:9). This lie alienates us from God and one another.

Anger at injustice is a hallmark of the prophets. We have the responsibility to speak the truth. If we don't witness to the crudeness and brutality of our society, which disregards the homeless, poor, hungry, and dispossessed, who will?

Truths are failed to sell in the market but lies are purchased with high price without pricing it.

The rope of the truth is thin but there is nobody who can cut it; the rope of lie is thick as a large pillar but it can be cut easily into a thousand pieces.

I had lost the fragrance of my youth, the belief that tomorrow would be a wonderful day. Now I was contaminated with the truth, and the truth was simple—life was sometimes very predictable and tomorrow was going to be just as dull and uneventful as today.

Physicist Richard Feynman once said that analysis is how we try not to fool ourselves.129

Court is a place where facts STILL matter