Quotes About Truths

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.

Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built.

In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.

The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousands truths

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

I could not understand scientific truths, why should I worry about understanding spiritual truths of religion? I wanted to say yes, this is true.

Good communication is based on identifying our feelings, expressing them, and getting validation that our partner hears and understands what we are saying, whether or not they agree. Emotions are not opinions, they are facts—truths about what people are experiencing.

After Benjamin Franklin read Jefferson's draft, he picked up his quill, scratched out the words "sacred & undeniable," and suggested that "these truths" were, instead, "self-evident." This was more than a quibble. Truths that are sacred and undeniable are God-given and divine, the stuff of religion. Truths that are self-evident are laws of nature, empirical and observable, the stuff of science. This divide has nearly rent the Republic apart.

an embittered Jefferson would suggest that newspapers ought to be divided into four sections: Truths, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Lies.)

If you think well, you'll see that nothing is by chance, but common sense, which is a way to bind conscience and shackle freedom, denies that and prefers to go on believing in old, worn-out truths.

Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized.

Scientists do not simply read nature to find truths to apply in the social world. Instead, they use truths taken from our social relationships to structure, read, and interpret the natural

There are differences between facts and truths. Facts are something you now in your brain; truths are things you know in your heart.

I see Sarah framed in the light of her doorway and it is like looking at a painting that emanate a mixture of wishes and truths about someone I loved - from a time I can already vividly remember. I wonder if this is a hazard of being a writer: a sense of detachment that sometimes makes the present seem like it is already past.

It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.