130 quotes
“Above all do not lie to yourself or to your family members. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth.”
— Dostoevsky
“It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.”
— Emile Zola
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
— William Shakespeare
“Justice is truth in action.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Faith does not mean that you become a follower faith means that you become a seeker of truth”
— Osho
“Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses”
— Heraclitus
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
— James Baldwin
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
— Flannery OConnor
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”
— Iris Murdoch
“Not knowing how near the truth is we seek it far away”
— Hakuin
“Seeking truth is seeking knowledge.”
— Plato
“It is not down in any map true places never are”
— Herman Melville
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them”
— Galileo Galilei
“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”
— Richard Rorty
“Peace is not the product of terror or fear peace is not the silence of cemeteries”
— Oscar Romero
“If now isnt a good time for the truth I dont see when well get to it.”
— Nikki Giovanni
“What is hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
— Lord Byron
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
— Simone Weil
“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.”
— Pierre Abelard
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.”
— John Locke
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage truth and courage are not always comfortable but they are never weakness”
— Brene Brown
“Truth is powerful and it prevails”
— Sojourner Truth
“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it.”
— Dogen Zenji
“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you the only lasting truth is change”
— Octavia Butler
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love”
— William Sloane Coffin
“The simplest things are often the truest.”
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.”
— Thomas Huxley
“Truth is powerful and it prevails. Where truth prevails peace follows.”
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”
— Pema Chodron
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity goodness and truth”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The value of art is in the observer when you find truth you find beauty”
— Agnes Martin
“Enlightenment is a destructive process it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier”
— Adyashanti
“The truth must dazzle gradually, or every man be blind.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Gratitude goes beyond the mine and thine and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift.”
— Henri Nouwen
“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.”
“It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.”
— Nikolai Gogol
“I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true and I am bound to live by the light of faith”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself through creative truth-telling.”
— Albert Camus
“Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred.”
— Vaclav Havel
“In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
— George Orwell
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you angry.”
— Gloria Steinem
“Knowledge itself is power.”
— Francis Bacon
“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”
— Saint Augustine
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“The truth is everyone is going to hurt you you just have to find the ones worth suffering for”
— Bob Marley
“The small truth has words that are clear and the great truth has great silence and the greatest truths have wonder”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them whoever knows how to listen to them can learn the truth.”
— Herman Hesse
“He who is not impassioned by the Good is not able to know it.”
— Plotinus
“Simplicity is the seal of truth.”
— Herman Boerhaave
“A life of simplicity is a life of truth and a life of truth needs no defense”
— Gandhi
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“Say not I have found the truth but rather I have found a truth and faith continues to reveal more”
— Kahlil Gibran
“The truth is that you already are what you are seeking”
“There is no story that is not true.”
— Chinua Achebe
“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
— Peter Thiel
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
— Voltaire
“Brahman is the only truth the world is illusion the self is ultimately Brahman”
— Shankara
“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. Peace comes from reading it rightly.”
“Every person must choose how much truth they can stand and approach others with compassion for their limits”
— Irvin Yalom
“Beauty is truth truth beauty and both are experienced through a deep sense of wonder”
— John Keats
“We are more alike my friends than we are unalike and compassion teaches us this truth”
— Maya Angelou
“The small truth has words that are clear and the great truth has great silence and faith dwells in that silence”
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act that leads to peace.”
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
“Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.”
— Mooji
“Enlightenment is a destructive process it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier it is the crumbling away of untruth”
“If you cannot find the truth right where you are where else do you expect to find it”
— Dogen
“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty but when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful I know it is wrong”
— Buckminster Fuller
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth and compassion gives us courage to proceed”
“All art is a kind of confession more or less oblique all artists if they are to survive are forced at last to tell the whole truth”
“Three things cannot be long hidden the sun the moon and the truth”
— Buddha
“Truth is one paths are many”
— Swami Satchidananda
“Seek the company of those who search for truth and run from those who have found it. Peace lies in the searching.”
“The first step in healing is to accept what is to honor the truth of your experience”
— Gabor Mate
“The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”
— Mencius
“There is neither creation nor destruction neither destiny nor free will neither path nor achievement this is the final truth”
— Ramana Maharshi
“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”
— Laozi
“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
“There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.”
— Kafka
“Real things dont need to try to be truthful they just need to be”
— Peter Zumthor
“This above all; to thine own self be true.”
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them”
— Ida B. Wells
“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem but the truth is that things dont really get solved they come together and they fall apart and then they come together again and that is healing”
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun the moon and the truth.”
— Siddhartha Gautama
“There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it.”
— Rhonda Byrne
“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.”
“Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth but kindness is always useful truth”
— Colson Whitehead
“Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth.”
“Our lives are filled with noise and activity but the deepest truth is born in silence”
— Wayne Muller
“Whoever does not know the truth is simply a fool yet whoever knows the truth and calls it a lie is a criminal”
— Gustav Klimt
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
“The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.”
— Julius Charles Hare
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Art is not about creating something perfect its about expressing something true”
— Takeshi Kitano
“The truth will set you free but first it will make you uncomfortable”
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth”
“One of the secrets of family life is that all the really important things are said in jest.”
— Lewis Carroll
“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change.”
“Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred”
“Prediction is very difficult especially about the future but time always tells the truth”
— Niels Bohr
“The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all is what we mean by the truth.”
— Charles Sanders Peirce
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information you are fundamentally at war with yourself and healing cannot begin”
— Bessel van der Kolk
“In the quiet hours of reflection we find the truest version of ourselves”
— Albert Schweitzer
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
— Unknown
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Peace embraces both.”
“What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have for healing”
“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.”
— John Stuart Mill
“The gift of mental power comes from God divine being and if we concentrate our minds on wonder truth is revealed”
— Nikola Tesla
“Whatever you do for others do it with true compassion and you will never make a mistake”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“To thine own self be true.”
“Kindness is the best way to tell the truth about who we are”
— Bob Goff
“The truth will set you free but first it will make you angry”
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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