Truth Quotes - Page 116

Truth evolves incessantly. If it does not, it's no truth at all.

...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...

I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real and true wholenessIs a sickness of our ideas.

Facts are relative to the knowledge man possesses at the present time. Truth however, is absolute and transcends the present, past, and future times. The relationship between Truth and Facts is that facts are not always the Truth, but Truth is always a Fact.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

Have an attitude of positive expectation.

In the garden of my heartFlowers of loves were bloomingNot just to express the beauty But to spread the fragrance Of happiness.

I came only to report the news, to gather information. I didn't come to find out the truth.

A human being is a garden of love. Only you have to know how much water is needed to grow them.

On the path to truth, you can’t see many people; truth’s way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.

That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.

There is truth and beauty in all religions. It’s the separation between them that creates difficulty. Instead of looking at what they have in common, which is plentiful, they spend too much time arguing about how they’re different.

A woman is a mother, daughter, and sister of every man; how she could be wrong?

Share your love, share your happiness; you will be rich and a great success.

Don't aim, listen. Don't run, walk. Don't doubt, Move. Your heart will guide you in the right direction.

The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.

Only those who can see, feel, and use the power of love, can enjoy the beauty and ecstasy of life.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.

John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody was going to listen to me anyway.

A true lover never fails, a failure never can love.

Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often have the most amazingly inventive and creative minds. They may appear to follow rules, but are also the most likely people to come up with a revolutionary new idea. They feel emotion intensly, but often seem to struggle to read facial expressions.

No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like

Let us make this world a house of love and peace. Let us forget and forgive all hate and prejudice. Let us break all the walls of pride and prejudice. Let us open our door to welcome joy and peace.

You should be spreading the good word. You should be etching the good word onto the glass scanning beds of library photocopiers. You should be scraping the truth onto old auto parts and throwing them off bridges so that people digging in the mud in a million years will question the world, too. You should be carving eyeballs into tire treads and onto shoe soles so that your every trail speaks of thinking and faith and belief. You should be designing molecules that crystallize into poems of devotion. You should be making bar codes that print out truth, not lies. You shouldn't even throw away a piece of litter unless it has the truth stamped on it--a demand for people to reach a finer place! ...Your new life will be tinged with urgency, as though you're digging out the victims of an avalanche. If you're not spending every waking moment of your life living the truth, if you're not plotting every moment to boil the carcass of the old order, then you're wasting your day.

Rhiannon's Law #14: There is a reason the truth hurts. When you cease to feel the sting, it means you've stopped caring. And damn, wouldn't that be a total fucking waste?

You need to understand what there is inside you

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

When you engage in work that you love, you are happy.

If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

Destiny reveals itself only when there is truth and action.

For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousand and thousands.

When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memory. We look down so many avenues of the past... but only feminine avenues... Yet there's a place no Truthsayer can see. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said a man will come one day and find in the gift of the drug his inward eye. He will look where we cannot - into both feminine and masculine pasts... Many men have tried the drug... so many, but none has succeeded.""They tried and failed, all of them?""They tried and died.

A busy life is an empty life.

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood which they have to invent, thinking that it can be safely incorporated, and will lend the whole story an air of verisimilitude.

Smiles are the dance of our soul,with the music of love, to express the beauty of mind,for the happiness of spirit,and for the joy of the world.

t takes great courage to stand up against your fixed, false beliefs.

Since language produces meaning within an enclosed system, there is always a built-in untranslatability, which national languages began to deliberately pursue. The process added to the creation of an untranslatable "reality" that can be expresses only in a particular language. It also added to the discovery of untranslatable "truths.

Comfort yields complacency. Break free.

Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.

Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.

If you do nothing, nothing will get done and nothing will change.

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. Already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific text-book, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying an historical fact.

When you are seeking love, from the distance, in silence, love is attracting you.

I'm not crying because of you you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.

Love to see the invisible with trust

It's a cycle... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs.

Only knowledge and truth may result in freedom of mind.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.

A library is more precious than a bank.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

It is a high spiritual truth that we create with our judgements.

…our recollections bring out our joyful smiles, but hardly make us chortle or guffaw; our recollections often leave imprints on our faces that show our regrets, but they hardly produce sounds that echo the depth of those regrets.

It was in that small lack of movement that Poet could see true horror. A mirror held up to the human race and how it can be manipulated. Ruined.