Quotes About Truth

The heart is the only book worth reading.

These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!

If your mind is happy, then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth us all there is. It's like when you've learned how to read - you can then read anywhere you go.

If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching reasonable political discourse.

I've always believed that it's possible to discern true statements from false statements, and that it's critically important to do so, and that we put our entire democratic experiment in peril when we don't. It's a lesson I fear our nation is about to learn the hard way. That's

if you can say something that is provably false, and no one cares, then you can't have a real debate about anything.

In politics," said John Lindsay, "the perception is the reality." So, too, in advertising, in business, and in life.

All truth is relative. Relative to your mind or the mind of another human being. When you say, 'I'm right and the next person is wrong,' all you're really saying is that you're a better perceiver than someone else.

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones.

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.

Academic masochism reflects a metaphysical prejudice that the truth should be a hard-won treasure, that what is read or learnt easily must therefore be flighty and inconsequential. The truth should be like a mount to be scaled, it is dangerous, obscure and demanding. Under the light of the library reading room, the academics' motto reads: the more a text makes me suffer, the truer it must be.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

There is the old joke made by the Marx who laughed about not deigning to belong to a club that would accept someone like him as a member, a truth as appropriate in love as it is in club membership.

Though we sometimes suspect that people are hiding things from us, it is not until we are in love that we feel an urgency to press our inquiries, and in seeking answers, we are apt to discover the extent to which people disguise and conceal their real selves.

Overcoming childhood could be understood as an attempt to correct the false stories of others.

With perspective in mind, we soon realize that – contrary to what the news suggests – hardly anything is totally novel, few things are truly amazing and very little is absolutely terrible.

The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

We require such 'sensuous' arts, Hegel suggested, because many important truths will impress themselves upon our consciousness only if they have been moulded from sensory, emotive material.

N-o s? reuÈ™esc niciodat? s? fac sau s? fiu tot ce vrei - È™i nici invers -, dar mi-ar pl?cea s? cred c? putem fi tipul de oameni care îÈ™i spun unii altora cine sunt de fapt. Alternativa înseamna t?cere È™i minciun?, care sunt adev?raÈ›ii duÈ™mani ai iubirii.

In conversations, my priority was to be liked, rather than to speak the truth. A desire to please led me to laugh at modest jokes like a parent on the opening night of a school play.

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistently available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding on to. As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

I thought of the similarities of complaints--always selfishness, always blindness--and the old psychological truth that what we complain of in others, others will complain of in us.

feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.