Truth Revealed Quotes

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Waiting, Understanding

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• Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?

  Frederick William Faber

  Government, Evil, Attention

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Growth in holiness, or the progress of the spiritual life”, p.91

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• The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

  Lord Acton

  Past, Rivers, Gold

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.1, VM eBooks

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• Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Heaven, Notion

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• A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

  David Brewster

  Truth, Giving, Doctrine

  David Brewster (1854). “More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian”, p.138

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• Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thinking, Talking, Facts

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• you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dark, Night, Light

  Joyce Carol Oates (1991). “Heat and other stories”, E P Dutton

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• The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Law, Vedas, Eternal

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2168, Manonmani Publishers

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