Quotes About What Is True

#1. There is nothing but what is true and what is true cannot be hidden. Allow that which is the light in you to be felt and seen by those who can feel and see the light.

Maha Khalid

#2. What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

T. S. Eliot

#3. Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Julian Baggini

#4. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Henry Kissinger

#7. Flee all that's evil, do all that's good, seek what is true, purse only peace, love
unconditionally.'
Warden's Oath

Megan Dent Nagle

#8. Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!

Pope Francis

#9. It seems that in connecting to what is true within myself, I help other people to connect. Making genuine connection lies at the beginning of building a real community.

Lily Yeh

#10. We often fear to say what is true. Our tongues are tied by the beliefs of the society.

Debasish Mridha

#11. We get inundated with so many messages about belief, about what is true and what is not, from both our families and our culture, and it's crucial that every single one of us come to our own well-excavated understanding.

Rainn Wilson

#12. It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.

Ann Druyan

#13. There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Richard Whately

#14. I don't care about what is good and what is evil, I care about what is true.

Richard Dawkins

#15. Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who realizes what is true, what actually exists. If we want to become enlightened, we simply have to acknowledge or recognize what is.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#16. What is true never fears investigation; what is false ... fears everything.

Guy Finley

#17. The old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

Ellen Glasgow

#18. The heart of most spiritual practices is simply this: Remember who you are. Remember what you love. Remember what is sacred. Remember what is true. Remember that you will die and that this day is a gift. Remember how you wish to live.

Wayne Muller

#19. There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

Harold Pinter

#20. When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

Toni Morrison

#21. Through education, I was completely changed to become a productive citizen of the world. And what is true in the life of one is true in the life of whole communities and entire nations: education has the power to transform.

Ben Carson

#22. People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

Dogen

#23. What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

Thomas Jefferson

#24. Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

Og Mandino

#25. Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Albert Camus

#26. Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

Alex Borstein

#27. What is true of the NFL is that it has been well-managed over the years. And that has been beneficial to the fans, it's been beneficial to the game itself, it's been beneficial to the players, coaches and everyone involved.

Roger Goodell

#28. Feelings do not always determine truth, but they can sometimes tell you what is true.

J.R. Rim

#29. The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true.

Kevin DeYoung

#30. If human beings were made in such a way that we believed only what is true, sane people would have been in the minority.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#31. Dharma is the study of what is, and the only way you can find out what is true is through studying yourself.

Pema Chodron

#32. The English Language is a form of communication! Words aren't only bombs and bullets - no, they're little gifts, containing meanings. What is true in love, is equally true at law

Phillip Roth

#33. Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Robert Brault

#34. Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people

Anonymous

#35. If what is true brings us sorrow, / if what sorrow brings is truth

Robert Peake

#36. What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

Bruce Lee

#37. In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#38. I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

Sharon Salzberg

#39. Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true
it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from fear or aversion, and it questions one's own basic potential or worth, or the value of another.

Tara Brach

#40. Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

Richard A. Snelling

#41. No man should be angry with what is true.

Plato

#42. When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Rene Descartes

#43. What is true of one man, said the judge, is true of many.

Cormac McCarthy

#44. The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Aristotle.

#45. What is true for you in your private heart is true for all men.

David Shields

#46. It is an honorable charge to shine the light
and stand up for what is true, just, and right.
Guardians of Light know innately that whenever we insert honor, love, and truth into any experience, we shall always remove pain.

Molly Friedenfeld

#47. My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

Gerry Spence

#48. Don't let yourself forget. Soak it in an keep remembering what is true. He is everything.

Francis Chan

#49. Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.

John Lancaster Spalding

#50. What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease.

Steve Southerland

#51. I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish to discuss what is true and to listen to evidence and put evidence forward to other people and have a sensible, sane, moderated argument.

Richard Dawkins

#52. But love? Who can say what is just a mire of dark needs and desires, and what is true love? Does such a thing exist? Can't it be that if we say, 'I love you' to another person and know that we mean it, then that is love, regardless of the motive?

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#53. The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Jeffrey Tucker

#54. I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

Thomas Huxley

#55. Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

Eliphas Levi

#56. What is true for a given person in a given situation is not necessarily true for that person in a different situation, or for another person in the same situation, and still less if both are different.

Michael Dibdin

#57. I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

Kate Moss

#58. Logic turns the act of abstraction into a tool for determining what is true and what is false: truth can be discovered in words alone, apart from concrete experience.

James Gleick

#59. Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

William Empson

#60. Salvation: to see each thing for what it is - its nature and its purpose.
To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.
What else could it be but to live life fully - to pay out goodness
like the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap.

Marcus Aurelius

#61. Faith also requires "purification" in Ratzinger's thought. For Ratzinger, reason allows faith to discern what is superstitious from what is true and what inconsistent with truth from what is a genuine expansion of knowledge.

John Lynch

#62. When thoughts aren't sticking, are thicker than stew What is true? What to do? When strife is looming, naught brewing for you Ask anew, what to do? Peder

Shannon Hale

#63. It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.

Matt Chandler

#64. We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true".

Richard P. Feynman

#65. Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.

Francis Quarles

#66. Better that the whole world should turn against you ... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

Guy Finley

#67. What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.

Steven Pinker

#68. To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#69. What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.

William Sargant

#70. Satan will often tell us what is true, but will never tell us the truth.

Kelly Minter

#71. It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#72. Faith is your anchor and sustainer in the new season. Faith that the one who called us is faithful. Faith helps you see in the dark. And when you feel like you can't see, Faith steadies your heart to trust what you know. What is true.

T.D. Jakes

#73. Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Charles Baudelaire

#74. The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.

Gautama Buddha

#75. I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it's not finished yet.

Richard Bach

#76. Is it true?" she asked. "Is the tale true?" "What is true for your people is not true for mine," he answered.

Malinda Lo

#77. And what is true of a shop-keeper is true of a shop-keeping nation.

Josiah Tucker

#78. I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

Cormac McCarthy

#79. This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.

Augusten Burroughs

#80. What I choose to believe does not change what is true.

Carrie Anne Noble

#81. Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

Gautama Buddha

#82. What is true is sacred. What has been suffered. What is beautiful.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#83. To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

Umberto Eco

#84. The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

George Jean Nathan

#85. There is a difference between knowing what is true and knowing why it is true

Edward Witten

#86. Without first knowing yourself, how can you know what is true? Illusion is inevitable without self knowledge. It is childish to be told and to accept that you are this or that. Beware

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#87. There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Eben Alexander

#88. What is true today may not be true ten years from now; there is more truth, more certainty in the inquiry "What if?" than in the definite "It is

Dave Matthes

#89. Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#90. To compare is the very nature of a mind that is not awake to discover what is true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#91. There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.

Jacob Bronowski

#92. What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

Eugene T. Gendlin

#93. The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.

Sally Hawkins

#94. Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Charles Caleb Colton

#95. What is true is true, and what is false is false ...

Emanuel Swedenborg

#96. A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

Philip K. Dick

#97. Truth is not a fixed thing. It evolves and morphs and inverts. What is true today may not be true tomorrow.

Matt De La Pena

#98. What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Mahatma Gandhi

#99. Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.

Joan Frank

#100. Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important ... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another.

Neale Donald Walsch