Knowing The Truth Quotes

• And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

  Plato

  Mean, Knowing, Words Of Wisdom

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• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

  Karen White

  Sleep, Night, Knowing

  Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.107, Penguin

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• It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Life, Relationship

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• 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

  Trust, Courage, Truth

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• Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

  Confucius

  Truth, Knowledge, Confucianism

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• God does not judge the condition or quality of His church by how good the meetings are on Sunday morning, but by how good the people are on Monday morning. The main calling of our life is more than just knowing the truth - it is having that truth become our life.

  Rick Joyner

  Christian, Monday, Morning

  Rick Joyner (2003). “A Message to the Glorious Church”, p.74, Destiny Image Publishers

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• This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.

  Adam Clarke

  Knowing, Waiting, Answers

  Adam Clarke (1832). “The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments : the Text Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation Including the Marginal and Parallel Texts ; with a Commentary and Critical Notes Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings”, p.614

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• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Life, Inspiring, Beautiful

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1959). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and 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.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Success, Trust

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all
  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

  John Keats

  Beauty, Truth, Philosophy

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)

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• Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. ... Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.

  Unita Blackwell

  Ideas, Knowing, Long

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• Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Humility, Knowing, Battle

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• Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Knowing, Firsts, Steps

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• There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Acceptance, Knowing, Matter

  Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.200, Hachette UK

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• Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.

  David Deida

  Knowing, Differences, Profound

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.333, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.

  David Deida

  Love, Art, Truth

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Knowing, Evil

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.907, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Knowing, Acting, Action

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• The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.

  George R. R. Martin

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.474, Bantam

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