Truth Quotes - Page 18

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

Terry Pratchett

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views' do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

Christopher Hitchens

Diversity is wisdom.

Sheila Renee Parker

Be the woman who falls so deeply in love with herself that nothing can stop her from loving all of life!

Erin Fall Haskell

The Illusion of Truth Gives Us the Delusion of Power

Damond Jiniya

Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose that fulfils our needs as an artist or designer.

Peter Stanyer

I turn to Willa Cather’s quote: Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cameron Conaway

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

Iain Pears

We discover truth by asking rapier-like questions that cut through the thick fog of doctrinarism. Artists and philosophers must be subversive: we need these rebellious cynics to ask questions, they must resist cultural norms; seek out truths that are not self-evident and challenge everything. Doubt, not blind belief, is essential for discovering truth.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.

Tadeusz Pankiewicz

It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.

Aspen Matis

They say the truth will set you free, but what they neglect to mention is what happens when the truth isn't what you want to hear.

Connor Franta

When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else.

Anne Lamott

Man's most important achievement is not about standing up and start walking but, standing up to speak the truth.

Sukant Ratnakar

The greatest achievement of humanity is the human spirit.

Kamal Ravikant

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.

Alexandra Potter

Don't date anyone you can't see yourself marrying.

Turcois Ominek

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

George MacDonald

don't just listen to people crying, hear the reasons why they cry

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I'm not sure I'll ever know the meaning of life or what comes for us after death, but I know it's more than the hysteria people make it out to be. It's about freeing your soul when no one else can; turning thirty and still feeling like you're seventeen. It's about taking chances on a whim, embracing the rain during the storm, and smiling so damn much that you start to cry. It's never regretting, never forgetting, and always being.It's kissing underwater and touching in the dark. Loving even when you think it's emotionally impossible and surviving someway and somehow. It's about living life with a full heart and an overflowing glass.I live life on the edge. I dream, I care, and I belong.I know there's a here and now.I know that I want it.

Nadège Richards

I wanted her and only her.I wanted to be a part of her storm. I wanted to feel my pulse against hers.I wanted the bitter on her sweet tongue. I wanted the sadness in her sweet syrup eyes. I wanted the silence in her screaming mind and the enigma that is really quite simple- a complicated happiness. I wasn't willing to let go. I was falling completely, forever, into solid fucking love that was swimming through my veins. I wanted to be the breath in her mouth and the rhythm in her chest that would beat only for me.

Shey Stahl

I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really.

Crystal Woods

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

Idries Shah

In the modern world we are in a paradoxical situation; because although in theory man knows that he can extend his attention to something and then remove it, he very often does not do so. In many areas he does not look at something and then detach from it, and look at something else.Once he has found something to interest himself in, he cannot detach himself from it efficiently, and therefore he cannot be objective. Note that, in most if not all languages, we have words like 'objectivity' which leads people to imagine that they have it, or can easily use it. That is equivalent (in reality if not in theory) to saying 'I know the word “gold”, so I am rich.

Idries Shah

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

Idries Shah

The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions; and why he often did not even address his audience. He said: 'I charge for this object lesson: people believe that knowledge must be given freely, and consequently mistake everything which is free for knowledge. I do not always lecture because, among Sufis, “The Master finds the pupil.” The pupil has to be physically present: but he may be absent in every other sense. When I discern that a pupil is “present” then I “find” him, for then his inner call is audible to me, even if it is silent to him.' 'Seek and you will be found.

Idries Shah

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Idries Shah

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.

Idries Shah

Sufism is experiential

Idries Shah

Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

Idries Shah

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Idries Shah

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

Idries Shah

Truth has no form.

Idries Shah

Everyone does not know the secrets of TruthThe States of Truth are not evidential.

Idries Shah

Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.

Idries Shah

If you are you because you are you, and I am I because I am I, then you are you and I am I.If you are you because I am I, and I am I because you are you, then you and I are not.

Menachem Mendel

It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself.

Jenny Hubbard

He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).

Victoria Schwab

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

Debasish Mridha

But never forget: When everything feels like it's falling to pieces, the pieces might actually just be falling into place.

Katie Kiesler

To conclude this personal note, I, William Joyce, will merely say that I left England because I would not fight for Jewry against the Führer and National Socialism, and because I believe most ardently, as I do today, that victory and a perpetuation of the old system would be an incomparably greater evil for [England] than defeat coupled with a possibility of building something new, something really national, something truly socialist.

Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce)

I like to call a spade a spade in politics and in everything else. That's why the zionists and the americans...The top officials hate Saddam Hussein.The White House is lying once again. He's a liar.He's the world's number one liar.He said there were chemical weapons in Iraq, and that Iraq is connected with terrorism.Later he declared: 'We didn't find any of this in Iraq.'What I want to say is that he also declared that what Saddam Hussein says is not true...This is defamation of your president of thirty five years.

Saddam Hussein

We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.

Bryant McGill

The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!

Bryant McGill

Aricles and I are married. The Greek god Apollo found out and he threatened to discredit and shame me before the other gods unless Aricles refused to fight. To protect my honor and name, he has allowed all of you to insult and attack him, and I will not stand for him to be hurt again. By anyone." Bathymaas

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Bravery is standing with the truth and right

Imran Khan

The truth will be never shared to anyone. They have no bravery to know the truth. You will help us. We will help you.

dhaniRT

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.

Veronica Roth

The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.

Brandon Mull

When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run.

John le Carré

We find that one person in life that will stand by us through everything, support us, love us regardless of yourself. That one person that will stand by your side through everything. Grab onto that person with everything for if you don't then one day you will look to your side expecting him to be there and you will find that he is not. So don't take the one for granted that makes you his life. If you do then he will remove you from his...

Albert Besselaar

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.

Orson Scott Card

These Days, Keeping Anything "Simple" Is The Most "Complex" Task To Do....

Muhammad Imran Hasan

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.

Robin Hobb

Take this treasure, Leave one of your own,And remember this truth:You are not alone.

Elaine Vickers

Someone once joked, Hell is other people. But the truth is that connection to other people can be sacred. Why else did God give so many people life? (Adam was't enough.) Or more simply, why else would He design hands that so perfectly clasp?

Lorna Jane Cook

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

Robert A. Heinlein

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