Finding Your Own Truth Quotes

#1. The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.

Adyashanti

#2. It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

Suman Jyoty Bhante

#3. So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

Rene Descartes

#4. You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

D. A. Pennebaker

#5. We often believe the truest measure of a relationship is the ability to lay ourselves bare. But there's something to be said for parading your plumage as well, finding truth as much in the silly as the severe.

David Levithan

#6. Sometimes people don't want to look back because they are afraid of facing the truth. But sometimes, facing the truth we're afraid of is what makes us who we're really supposed to be.

Nancy J Cavanaugh

#7. Keeping what you have is hard like searching for what you've lost.

Auliq Ice

#8. More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching ...

Sogyal Rinpoche

#9. Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

Alain De Botton

#13. When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

Errol Morris

#14. 'Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation.

Jessy Schram

#15. If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

David Levithan

#16. For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

Paul Craig Roberts

#17. You're wondering if I really would slit your throat. To tell the truth, I don't know either, but think of the fun we could have finding out.

Terry Pratchett

#18. The truth is, you are your own "special someone," and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.

Deborah King

#19. There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.

Dawn Powell

#20. Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.

William Zinsser

#21. People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

Thomas Sowell

#22. There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit.
- Tayend

Trudi Canavan

#23. Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

George Soros

#24. There's a big difference between trying to do something and actually doing it. We often say we're trying to do something-losing weight, getting more exercise, finding a job. But the truth is, we're either doing it or not doing it.

Tina Seelig

#25. I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.

Bell Hooks

#26. It is a scholar's task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it's no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a preexisting truth? Or have you imposed an arbitrary meaning on whatever it is you're considering?

Mary Doria Russell

#27. If you did a thing hoping a person wouldn't find out, that person always did.

Larry McMurtry

#28. Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

Thucydides

#29. It's as if I died too,' she whispered to herself, 'as if I was born dead.'
Ironically, it was true. Emotionally she knew what her mind did not, beyond logic, beyond reason, as if somehow deep inside she felt what Sarah knew.

Denny Taylor

#30. Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go.

Abhijit Naskar

#31. What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

Clifford D. Simak

#32. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.

D.R. Silva

#33. We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society.

Debasish Mridha

#34. The effort you direct at finding and developing the person you are is the key to life

Sunday Adelaja

#35. Finding themselves in the truth is worth several attempts.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#36. Did anyone know anything at all, or finding times when the truth didn't suit them, had they all been repeating falsehoods and nonsense for so long they no longer remembered what was fact and what was invention?

Edward W. Robertson

#37. I mention all this so that you will understand that is part of the process: once you've found out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding it out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.

Nora Ephron

#38. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.

Jennifer DeLucy

#39. I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

#40. The truth never hurts more than finding out someone you love has lied to you.

Fiona Paul

#41. In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

John Edgar Wideman

#42. The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.

Gary Vaynerchuk