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We
arrive at truth, not
by
reason only, but also
by the heart.
Pascal
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You’re not going to find truth outside yourself.
Not through lovers
or mates, not with friends, not with family, and certainly not via
material success. The only place you are going to be able to find
your truth is in your genuine spiritual center. Truth is found
by living truly—in your own authentic way.
Lama Surya Das
Awakening the Buddha Within
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Just as thinking in general has developed out of the need for mastery
of material life, so the quest for truth is rooted in the interests and needs
of individuals and social groups. Without such interest the stimulus for
seeking the truth would be lacking. There are always groups whose
interest is furthered by truth, and their representatives have been the
pioneers of human thought; there are other groups whose interests are
furthered by concealing truth. Only in the latter case does interest prove
harmful to the cause of truth. The problem, therefore, is not that there is
an interest at stake, but which kind of interest is at stake. I might say that
inasmuch as there is some longing for the truth in every human being,
it is because every human being has some need for it.
Erich Fromm
Escape from Freedom
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Truth,
however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
Agatha Christie
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We should never be ashamed to approve truth or
acquire it, no matter
what its source might be, even if it might have come from foreign
peoples
and alien nations far removed from us. To those who seek the
truth, no
other object is higher in value. Neither shall truth be
under-rated, nor
its exponent belittled. For indeed, truth abases none and
ennobles all.
Rasa'il al-Kindi
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Today
I bent the truth to be kind, and I
have no regret,
for I am far surer of
what is kind than I am of
what is true.
Robert
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I speak truth, not as much as I would,
but as much
as I dare; and I dare a little
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grow older.
Michel de Montaigne
But truth is so great a thing that we ought not to
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Life
is short, but truth
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Arthur
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In proportion as we
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Everyone has some part of the truth to share.
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There are very few human
beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant
illumination. Most of us
acquire it fragment by fragment, on a
small scale,
successively, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anaïs Nin
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People stumble over the
truth from time to time, but most
pick themselves up and hurry off as
if nothing happened.
Winston Churchill
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There's an element of truth in
every idea
that lasts long
enough
to be called corny.
Irving Berlin
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I claim no superior intellect, but do
subscribe to a gut feeling which says,
"I am not afraid to intellectually test any idea contradictory to
my own
because from that direction, truth will surely come if I do not now
possess it."
W.M. Pepper
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Truth
is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite.
Islanded between
the arms, the inhabitants argue
for a lifetime as to which is the main
river.
Cyril Connolly |
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Let
us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
George Sand (Amandine Dupin) |
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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in
any one creed or system.
Mary Augusta Ward
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There
are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is
trying
to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Start
telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the
truth to
yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself
about someone
else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then
tell the truth
about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to
everyone about
everything. These are the five levels of truth telling.
This is the five-fold path to freedom.
Neale
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Have
confidence in the truth, although you may not be able
to comprehend it, although you may suppose its sweetness to
be bitter, although you may shrink from it at first. Trust
in the
Truth. . . . Have faith in the Truth and live it.
the Buddha
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There
is no path to truth. Truth must be discovered, but there is
no
formula for its discovery. What is formulated is not
true. You must
set out on the uncharted sea, and the uncharted sea is yourself.
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may
be the rest of our truths.
William James
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Truth
is beautiful, without doubt; and so are lies.
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People
say they love truth, but in reality they want
to believe that which they love is true.
Robert
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Every
truth passes through three stages before
it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the
second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur
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Humans have been searching for the truth for millennia, and trying to
understand
truth can look very complicated. However, the kind of truth
that you create in
your mind is complicated. This is not the real truth.
The mind makes everything
complicated because it doesn't have the capacity to comprehend the real truth.
To fill this void of not understanding, the mind comes up with many complex
theories. Yet the real truth existed long before the creation of humanity, and it
will exist long after the extinction of humanity. It can't be understood through
knowledge, and it doesn't need the validation of the human mind.
Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
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The
TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought
you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better.
When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness
of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to
which
you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.
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Those
who know the truth are not equal
to those who love the truth.
Confucius |
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Truth
will always be truth, regardless of lack
of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W.
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We have to be utterly broken before we can realize
that it is impossible
to better the truth. It is the truth that we deny which so
tenderly and
forgivingly picks up the fragments and puts them together again.
Laurens Van der Post |
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I
do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself
I seem to have been only a child playing on the seashore
while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton |
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If one can
actually revert to the truth, then a great deal of
one's suffering can be erased--because a great deal of
one's suffering is based on sheer lies.
R.D.Laing |
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When
I ignored my own truth on behalf of a distorted ego and ethic,
I led a false life that caused others pain--for which I can
only ask
forgiveness. When I started attending to my own truth,
more of that
truth became available in my work and my relationships.
I now
know that anything one can do on behalf of true self is done
ultimately in the service of others.
Parker J.
Palmer
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