Quotes on Truth Is

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. (10)

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.