Truth Quotes - Page 37

• Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.

  William Faulkner

  Honesty, Simple, Views

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• We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

  Andre Gide

  Honesty, Fighting, Errors

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.159, Routledge

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• The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

  George Gissing

  Honesty, Soul, Touching

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.148, The Floating Press

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• There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

  Thornton Wilder

  Honesty, Different, World

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Men, Hair

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.444, Harvard University Press

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• A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Honesty, Men, Practice

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.409

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• When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

  Victor Hugo

  Honesty, Speak, About Yourself

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• Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Being Yourself, Honesty, Ignorance

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• There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Men, Good Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Lying, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2334, Delphi Classics

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• He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Honesty, Teaching, Air

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• To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Honesty, Unbelievable

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

  John Wycliffe

  Motivational, Honesty, Believe

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• Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Loyalty, Honesty, May

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”

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• Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

  Betty White

  Funny Inspirational, Communication, Soul

  Betty White (1988). “Betty White in person”, Thorndike Pr

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• He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

  George Berkeley

  Lying, Men, May

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362

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• There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Lying, Character, People

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• Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

  Franz Marc

  Life, Letting Go, Dream

  from a note author wrote down on his return from Paris as quoted in "Expressionism" by Wolf-Dieter Dube, 1973, p. 126, 1907.

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• Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

  F. H. Bradley

  Fake People, People, Fake

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 6), 1930.

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• Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word "intuition": to know, or understand from within - from one's own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Heart, Simple, Self

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• If you can't see God in All, you can't see God at all.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Inspirational, Bhajans

  "Kundalini Yoga : The Flow of Eternal Power‎". Book by Shakti Pawha Kaur Khalsa, 1998.

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• I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Forgotten, Consciousness

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 20, 2009

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• Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.

  Ernest Holmes

  Beauty, Atmosphere, Spirit

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.216, Penguin

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• As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy.

  Isaac Newton

  Philosophy, Taken, Science

  Optics Book III, Part I

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• I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.

  Galileo Galilei

  Mean, Science, Past

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