Top 100 Knowing Truth Quotes
#1. If a man has to ask for your trust, it's a sure sign that you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you.
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
#2. The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed text orients one to a world of order, meaning, and the possibility of knowing truth.
Douglas Groothuis
#3. Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be who and what they were? Or was the mystery what kept us coming back for more, slowly enticing us, knowing that once the truth was out, the appeal would be lost?
Amber Lynn Natusch
#4. Is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert
#5. In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.
Toni Packer
#6. How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#7. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
Mary Beth Chapman
#8. No good coming from the truth? Knowing the truth is always good. And better that it's us discovering it than someone else, right?
Hugh Howey
#9. The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth
N. T. Wright
#10. True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.
Elizabeth George
#11. If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.
David Deida
#12. Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.
William Kingdon Clifford
#13. Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.
Mark Dever
#14. That's the problem with any 'simple truth' - it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.
Ali Sheikh
#15. Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.
Nancy Pearcey
#16. When we set our hearts on knowing the truth, we assist one another in the long tender work of awakening. When the story is right, and the people we love are waiting to listen, we tell each other how to live.
Mark Matousek
#17. We cannot be judge and jury, the hardest thing is to understand the unknown and in knowing the hidden all things are revealed giving truth.
God is watcher during all moments and at the end the real Judge.
Zarina Bibi
#18. There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.
George Eliot
#19. Sometimes by not knowing the truth we make incorrect judgments about situations
Sunday Adelaja
#20. Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.
George R R Martin
#21. We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
Aristotle.
#22. Jenny retained a flimsy essence of the truth. It was a quiet knowing she'd always hold in her heart...'Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon
Oliver Rixon
#23. Unlike most people," Fisher said, "questions are what make you tick. Knowing is what gives you a reason to roll out of bed in the morning, because you're not just in search of knowledge. Facts are never enough. You're after something else, something more fundamental. You're after the truth." Fisher
Ted Dekker
#24. She had this uncanny sense of seeing things the way they were instead of the way you'd want them to be, of knowing me better than I knew myself. She could sniff out the truth even if it hurt.
Mike Gayle
#25. Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.
Gian Kumar
#26. You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.
Bryant McGill
#27. P21 the more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it, this person is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into dialogue.
Paulo Freire
#28. I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.
Jeff Kinney
#29. Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted because they feel you're giving all your energy to your fans, and there's a lot of truth to that.
Kid Rock
#30. Knowing the truth about what you believe and longing for the time before you knew it are not mutually exclusive states of being.
Erin Keane
#31. You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
Ajahn Chah
#32. Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
Robert Collier
#33. A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
Criss Jami
#34. Knowing all of this makes me love and hate Jesus at the same time. Because, when instead of contrasting good and evil, he contrasted truth and evil, I have to think about all the times I've substituted being good (or appearing to be good) for truth.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#37. I didn't lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God.
Nikki Rowe
#38. Trust is not hoping your partner will love you; it is KNOWING that they DO.
Julieanne O'Connor
#39. When and how the most painful of situations is going to be resolved and redeemed is no mystery to God. Knowing this truth about God's complete knowledge really does help me accept the unacceptable in my life.
Elizabeth George
#40. There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life.
Truth Devour
#41. Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone
Alan Cohen
#42. I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.
Clarice Lispector
#43. Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.
David Hawkins
#44. Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.
Bryant H. McGill
#45. Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.
Veronica Roth
#46. He had been guilty once or twice of believing he understood, only to discover he did not ... There were times, he saw, when not knowing was the biggest truth, and you had to stay with that.
Rachel Joyce
#47. Real integrity comes from knowing oneself and believing in truth, without compromise, and no matter how challenging. Integrity is a beautiful thing.
Sameh Elsayed
#48. Truth is an experiencing, not an experience. It is a knowing, not knowledge.
Osho
#49. This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#50. No, my dear," he said at last, softly, knowing it was only the truth. "I would rather have you than any ship in the Navy.
Naomi Novik
#51. Knowing what you don't know is the beginning of wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#52. There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.
Sue Monk Kidd
#53. She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable truth that it could influence her actions, block her desires. A sordid necessity to be grappled with.
Nella Larsen
#54. Don't talk yourself into falling in love with someone. Either, you are in love or you are not. True love is not a choice. It is something you know in your heart when all guilt, doubt and fear are removed.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.
Bill Johnson
#56. I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to this moment.
David Dabydeen
#57. But the truth is that we can never avoid uncertainty. This not knowing is part of the adventure, and it's also what makes us afraid. Bodhichitta
Pema Chodron
#58. She drinks in his nakedness. Her sixth sense of knowing assures her that he is the one she has been waiting for all her life.
Truth Devour
#59. The truth is, I don't really know if she could help me, but I know she really wants to believe she could and I know she wants me to come to her believing it too. My love should be knowing this about her and being able to pretend, but I can
Courtney Summers
#60. You can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine the new understanding, and , it it aligns with your inner truth and knowing, to enlarge your belief system to include it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#61. The Canarsie People said the knowing belongs to the old and wise, but the unfolding is in the keeping of the young. The old prevent the young from straying off the path of wisdom. The young yearn after the path of dreams. Between the two there is truth.
Beverly Swerling
#62. It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someone's soul without them knowing.
Catherine Doyle
#63. The truth may hurt, but lies-they're vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they're there. Until it's too late.
Katie Dale
#64. Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people.
Michael Sheen
#65. Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.
Jaggi Vasudev
#66. This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.
Charles Spurgeon
#67. There's a big difference between not knowing the truth and not liking it.
Glenn Beck
#68. Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings.
Marlene Chism
#69. The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existence of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem.
Robert Fulghum
#71. Is it better not knowing the ugly truth, and pretending it doesn't exist? Or is it better to confront it, even though the knowledge may be a weight you carry around forever?
Jodi Picoult
#72. Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts ... ... Knowing is KEY to acceptance.
Abby Espiritu
#73. Do you think any of us go anywhere until we have the truth? Do you think there's peace without justice?" "No, I don't," Eve admitted, knowing it would always drive her.
J.D. Robb
#74. When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
Blaise Pascal
#75. You can't live an obedient life and miss an adventure. Following the commands of Christ is not just about behavior. Behavior modification is not an end in itself in the New Testament. Transformation is about knowing the truth and the truth setting you free.
Beth Moore
#76. We fear changes, so we fear to let it go, not knowing that life is an ever-changing, magnificent flower of triumph, tragedy, love, hope, and joy.
Debasish Mridha
#77. First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.
John K. Brown
#78. Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown.
Miguel De Unamuno
#80. You're better off not knowing the truth. You're just as much of a monster as I am.
Millicent Nankivell
#81. Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.
Kirk Cameron
#82. Knowing the truth about the hell-realms that animals have to endure, it would be wise of us to do our best now not to plant the karmic seeds that would cause us to be reborn as an animal in one of those hell realms.
Sharon Gannon
#83. Be rather like a strong, big old tree, firmly anchored in your soil, deeply rooted, knowing yourself, knowing what you are anchored into, which is Source and Truth, and no currents from the outside world, no matter how strong, have any sway over you.
Maha Devi Li Ra La
#84. To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it.
Sorin Cerin
#85. I'd rather be close to those that tell me the truth as it is than being around those that lie straight to my face knowing I'm worth the truth.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#86. It is only within knowing ones own self that truth resides & peace prevails.
Truth Devour
#87. To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert
#88. The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#89. Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
Thomas A Kempis
#90. I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.
J.K. Rowling
#91. The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#92. Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well.
Watchman Nee
#93. He maybe, possibly, said that if he got word of anyone getting in your way, they'd find out whether there was any truth to the rumor about him knowing how to kill a man with paper clips.
Julie James
#94. There's a difference between suspecting a thing and finally knowing it for certain.
Glenn Beck
#95. So many times have I heard the common lament, "If only I could go back to that age, knowing what I now know!" Those words amuse me profoundly, for in truth, the lament should be, "If only I could reclaim the lust and the joy I knew then!
R.A. Salvatore
#97. Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.
Janet Fitch
#98. Idiots always keep burying the truths not knowing that even the stomachs of the graves cannot digest the truths and throw up!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. The essential form of knowledge ... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.
Francis Bacon
#100. It's been a painful lesson, but I feel stronger knowing the truth.
Lisa Desrochers
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