Quotes About Universal Truth

#1. Speculative truth begins to appear but a shadow of individual minds, agreement between intellects seems unattainable, and we turn to the truth of feeling as the only universal bond of union.

George Eliot

#2. Keep your faith in all things hidden. We believe in the stars when we cannot see them. We believe in the sun when it no longer shines for us. And we believe in the universal truth even when it is not shown clearly.

Hilary Thompson

#3. The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Michelle Obama

#4. Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.

Immortal Technique

#5. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - Orwell

Amie Kaufman

#6. Coal, in truth, stands not beside but entirely above all other commodities. It is the material energy of the country - the universal aid - the factor in everything we do." - William Stanley Jevons, economist, 1865

Naomi Klein

#7. As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.

Ruth St. Denis

#8. I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

Criss Jami

#9. In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#10. Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

Konrad Lorenz

#11. Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

Deepak Chopra

#12. Despite all the sadness, violence and misery, I still believe in universal peace, goodness, and beauty of humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#13. The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

Albert Pike

#14. During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

#15. It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

Margaret Fuller

#16. As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

Jennifer Dunn

#17. There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

Ban Ki-moon

#18. In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

Dean Koontz

#19. If you understand or if you don't
If you believe or if you doubt
There's a universal justice
And the eyes of truth
Are always watching you

Enigma

#20. There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

Amish Tripathi

#21. A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

Alain Badiou

#22. A perception of this truth lies at the back of the universal human feeling that bad men ought to suffer. It is no use turning up our noses at this feeling, as if it were wholly base. On its mildest level it appeals to everyone's sense of justice. Once

C.S. Lewis

#23. A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth ... It establishes the equality of [humanity] ...

Benjamin Rush

#24. Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

Michel De Montaigne

#25. Love is universal and everywhere,
but hunger for love is always there.

Debasish Mridha

#26. I'm 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.

Harlan Coben

#27. The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.

W. H. Auden

#28. Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult
at least I have found it so
than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

Charles Darwin

#29. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Aldous Huxley

#30. The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.

Oriana Fallaci

#31. By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

William Dean Howells

#32. We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge.

Sharon Salzberg

#33. Even post true death memories carried on the waves of universal energy will defy the faux perception of finality.

Truth Devour

#34. Truth is naturally universal ... and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

Anya Seton

#35. So there you have it: you must believe in something...and that is universal! Believing in nothing is a belief system in itself.

Kazeem Olalekan

#36. Taking the path of least resistance is always helpful and peaceful, which is always in line with your life's purpose. If your current work area is different than your purpose then you will face extra challenges.

Hina Hashmi

#37. A Church Growth principle is a universal truth which, when properly interpreted and applied, contributes significantly to the growth of churches and denominations. It is a truth of God which leads his church to spread his Good News, plant church after church, and increase his Body.

Donald McGavran

#38. When people ask for advice they very rarely want your advice and will go ahead and do what they want to do anyway, no matter what you say. That applied in every sort of case; it was a human truth of universal application, but one which most people knew little or nothing about.

Alexander McCall Smith

#39. The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.

Rudy Rucker

#40. Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.

Greg Saunier

#41. Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Lord Chesterfield

#42. I have been all over this world of ours and I have found only one truth to be universal no matter what culture, people or country, I have visited. If you there with an open hand, an open heart, a smile, and demonstrating a little respect for those you me, you will always find yourself welcome.

Michael Leslie

#43. In order to understand the universal perspective,
first you have to know more than a version of truth.

Toba Beta

#44. The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.

James Madison

#45. The only things that last are love and hate. The only one that matters is love: Choose love. Hate erodes. Love nourishes..

Na'ama Yehuda

#46. It is a universal truth that no matter how well one knows a scene, to observe it from above is something of a revelation.

Kate Morton

#47. An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

Stefan Kanfer

#48. Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

Corey Hart

#49. He smiled to himself. Through many centuries and many incarnations, he had learned one universal truth: bitches love them some cushions.

Christopher Moore

#50. Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Dan Brown

#51. A universal truth of bicycling is this - pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Robert Penn

#52. Peace is inner joy, tranquility, nonjudgmental love and universal compassion.

Debasish Mridha

#53. Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

Peter Cosgrove

#54. Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.

John Dewey

#55. Someone burns your beloved scripture in front of you, yet you are not bothered even the slightest bit. That's when you know, you have achieved divinity.

Abhijit Naskar

#56. Love is the universal source of joy and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#57. Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

Criss Jami

#58. All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; and

Victor Hugo

#59. I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

Anthony Bourdain

#60. All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

Diane Setterfield

#61. Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original.

Josh McDowell

#62. One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

V.S. Naipaul

#63. To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#64. Any good person who is motivated to attain awareness of the whole truth should follow the Universal Way to calm his mind and harmonize it with all aspects of life.

Lao-Tzu

#65. You can spend all day trying to think of some universal truth to set down on paper, and some poets try that. Shakespeare knew that it's much easier to string together some words beginning with the same letter.

Mark Forsyth

#66. You've deduced a universal truth: things are usually unfair.

Patrick Rothfuss

#67. Aikido is not ultimately Japanese: It is an art of universal truth and international significance.

Linda Holiday

#68. We are the universe seeking truth.

Jay Woodman

#69. Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being; Truth the perfect comprehension of the Universal Mind.

Rabindranath Tagore

#70. The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

Austin O'Malley

#71. There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.

Roland Allen

#72. If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

George Bancroft

#73. Kindness is the universal language of pure love, so let us express ourselves with kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#74. A common human error is a tendency to recognize personal truths as universal truths.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#75. Love is the universal language of heart.
Feeling are the universal language of love.
Smile is the universal language of charm.
Attraction is the universal language of life.

Debasish Mridha

#76. Our spirit is universal, all powerful, and limitless. Why do we put societal boundaries around us? They are not boundless.

Debasish Mridha

#77. Time and progress are synonymous terms
nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.

Joseph Pilates

#78. To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#79. For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

Robert Kocharian

#80. I bet it's a universal truth: You eat your pie or go home.

Kevin Hearne

#81. If everything is energy, which it is - then everything is because of energy.

Serge Benhayon

#82. (He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for documentation first.)

Charlie Jane Anders

#83. God, the Creator of everything, is not a person but a power and presence whose work is based on definite principles which we call 'Cosmic Laws' or 'Natural Laws' or 'Universal Laws'.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#84. Truth is a matter of Perspective
There will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist.

George Orwell

#85. Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#86. Everywhere I went, in every country, people complained about their education system. It was a universal truth and a strangely reassuring one. No one was content, and rightly so. Educating all kids to high levels was hard, and every country - every one - still had work to do.

Amanda Ripley

#87. Nothing, in fact, is as universal or as ancient as the iniquitous and absurd; truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society.

Heraklion Press

#88. Except you never knew when you faced the last of anything. That was a universal truth I wished I didn't understand. That ridiculous curl on Doyle's forehead came back

Anonymous

#89. The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth ...

Federico Garcia Lorca

#90. A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.

Claude Bernard

#91. A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.

Cameron Jace

#92. The longest tyranny that ever sway'd
Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd
Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle],
And made his torch their universal light.
So truth, while only one suppli'd the state,
Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.

John Dryden

#93. I try to do women's-point-of-view comedy. The joke is, 'This is what I think; there's the truth.' I try to think of stuff that's real broad, but the more personal it is, the more universal it is. All my friends go through the same stuff.

Roseanne Barr

#94. Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies.

Bohdi Sanders

#95. It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and the guidelines of people. I will expand in this universe, I will not stay on the lines nor within the lines written by this world.

C. JoyBell C.

#96. ...once you express your will, the Universe will conspire with each and every atom to help you reach your destiny.

Katy Tackes

#97. I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

Rachel Platten

#98. One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.

Elizabeth Lesser

#99. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

James Madison

#100. From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal