Quotes About Truth

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Ich habe mich oft gefragt, ob wir die anderen sehen können, wie sie wirklich sind, ob wir sie je erkennen oder nur das in ihnen sehen dürfen, was sie selbst auch zulassen.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature.

la verdad, ni bien es pronunciada, se transforma inmediatamente en una opinión entre tantas, es contestada, reformulada, reducida a un tema discursivo entre otros.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.

There is always a suspicion...that one is living a lie or a mistake; that something crucially important has been overlooked, missed, neglected, left untried, and unexplored; that a vital obligation to one's own authentic self has not been met or that some chances of unknown happiness completely different from any happiness experienced before have to been taken up in time and are bound to be lost forever if they continue to be neglected.

The life of study is austere and imposes grave obligations. It pays, it pays richly; but it exacts an initial outlay that few are capable of. The athletes of the mind, like those of the playing field, must be prepared for privations, long training, a sometimes superhuman tenacity. We must give ourselves from the heart, if truth is to give itself to us. ?#?Truth? serves only its slaves.

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

But all memories, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, have the shadow of truth underneath. Even the most imperfect memory is a window—

I lied, therefore I thought.

Sometimes being real means allowing pain or accepting a painful truth. Yet something in us aligns with an inner ground of authenticity when we are real. We love it because of its inherent rightness in our soul, the sense of "Aha, here I am and there is nothing to do but be.

One cannot seek happiness, for it is the result of realizing the Truth. The personality, which has security and pleasure as its aims, cannot be happy. Pursuing pleasure or safety will entail covering up any unpleasant or frightening truths. This automatically closes Joy. For Joy is the radiance of the heart when Truth is appreciated.

Only when compassion is present will people allow themselves to see the truth.

We are thus offered a fundamental and joyfully liberating release from our addiction to searching for love from outside, by realizing the truth that the most powerful experience of love is available within us, simply waiting for us to discover it. And it is in our own souls that love moves us toward our deepest nature, acting as the fuel for unfoldment and revelation and dissolving what separates us from the truth of what we are.

The origin of criticism lies in an innocent, heartfelt kind of question, one that is far from simple and that carries enormous risk: Did you feel that? Was it good for you? Tell the truth.

A boxing movie without clichés is like a political campaign without lies.

All outward actions are worthless while our hearts be not right with God.

The stunning beauty of the truth lies beyond the veil of habits.

When will you ever accept the true ugliness of health?