The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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.
The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.
I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own....Stand still, be quiet.
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.
The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
Factual truth is always related to other people: it concerns events and circumstances in which many are involved; it is established by witnesses and depends upon testimony; it exists only to the extent that it is spoken about, even if it occurs in the domain of privacy. It is political by nature.
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
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