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The Way of Truth & Lies
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Way of Truth & Lies
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.
- Albert Schweitzer
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is and will be beautiful, is Truth.
- Leo Tolsto{r}y
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
- Einstein
In all ten directions of the Universe, there is only one truth.
When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same.
What can ever be lost? What can be attained?
If we attain something, it was there from the beginning of time.
If we lose something, it is hiding somewhere near us.- Ryokan
We may some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our mortality.
- Henry Adams
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
- Charles Dickens
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Every man, when he gets quiet, when he gets desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.
- Henry Miller
To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Sir Issac Newton
Critical Tasks
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
So, how do we sift truth from belief? How do we write our own histories personally or culturally? And thereby define ourselves. How do we penetrate years, centuries of historical distortion to find Original Truth?
- The Da Vinci Code (movie quote)
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.
- Simone De Beauvoir
We arrive at truth, not by reason alone, but also by the heart.
- Blaise Pascal
Don't keep searching for the truth; just let go of your opinions.
- Seng-ts'an
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin with the alphabet.
- Japenese proverb
Iro Ha Ni He Ho Ti Ri Nu Ru Wo
Wa Ga Yo Tare Zo Tsune Naramu
U Wi No Oku Yama Ke Fu Koete
Asa ki Yume Mi Si We Hi Mo Sezu- Japanese Wisdom poem, attributed to Kukai, that covers the Japanese alphabet sounds
Translation:
You are like a beautiful flower with petals falling down;
In this world all is constantly changing;
Today you must cross over the deep mountains of transitory things;
Dream a sweet dream of life without attachment.
Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.
- The Vedas
We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
- William Blake
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
- George Bernard Shaw
Challenges
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring.
- Neal Donald Walsh (Conversations with God /3)
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
- Werner Erhard
I don't give them hell. I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.
- Harry S. Truman
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Yes, of course there is something fishy (key 13) about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. Its really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient.
- Iris (movie)
{which is why I think images are so critical to be included in the dialog when we start to speak our truth ...}
Any truth creates a scandal.
- Marguerite Yourcenar
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
- Herbert Agar
Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring.
- Neal Donald Walsh (Conversations with God /3)
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
- Khalil Gibran
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The road to truth is lonG, and lined the entire way with annoying bast [The Egyptian Cat] ards.
- Alexander Jablokov
Humor
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
- Jerome K Jerome
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
- Josh Billings
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
- Antisthenes
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
– Kabir
The truth will make you free.
- The Bible (John 8:32 )
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
- Aristotle
Miss.Sell.Aneous *
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
- William Osler
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.
- Charles Colton
Truth was the only daughter of Time.
– Leonardo da vinci
LIES. The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.
– Leonardo da vinci
You can read more esoteric wisdom quotes about truth in Key 16: Truth.
