Top 68 There Is Only One Truth Quotes
#1. The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the root of all the evil that is in the world
Max Born
#2. The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
Hermann Hesse
#3. I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
Flannery O'Connor
#4. In all ten directions of the universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same. What can ever be lost? What can be attained? If we attain something, it was there from the beginning of time. If we lose something, it is hiding somewhere near us.
Ryokan
#6. There is only one truth, and that is love, all others are a byproduct.
Debasish Mridha
#7. There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth."
Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}
Patrick Rothfuss
#8. It is faith (trust) that affirms that the light, the ultimate truth, is perfect love. (That's because there is only one God, and He is both.) Therefore faith is the key to this absolute love of truth.
Peter Kreeft
#9. There are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's. Astounded
Susan Meissner
#10. There's no blade sharper than the truth under the Sun, it's enlightens the mind, releases the captives, condemns the guilty and spares the innocent; it's the only weapon a hero ever needs to fight a war, the one which is conducted without a need of any Iron blade!
Marcus L. Lukusa
#11. There is a common perception that there are two alternative libertarian positions on immigration: government-controlled borders and open borders. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is only one libertarian position on immigration, and that position is open immigration or open borders.
Jacob G. Hornberger
#12. There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.
Robert De Niro
#13. The truth is there is no Devil making you torture, rape, murder, and sodomize one another, or making you destroy the very land that feeds you. There is only you.
Brom
#14. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's.
Susan Meissner
#15. There is only one sin. and that is theft ... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
Khaled Hosseini
#16. There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
Jodi Picoult
#18. One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
#19. It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
Berthold Auerbach
#20. There is very little truth in the old refrain that one cannot legislate equality. Laws not only provide concrete benefits, they can even change the hearts of men - some men, anyhow - for good or evil.
Gilbert King
#22. There is only one limitation that exists in our minds, which can indeed reduce the speed of our progress; that is the limitation of our understanding
Sunday Adelaja
#23. There is truth in stories," said Arthur. "There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.
Cassandra Clare
#24. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?
Tom Stoppard
#25. Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mind
is free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there is
no seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inward
poverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#26. But truth is not the only merit that a metaphysic can possess. It may have beauty, and this is certainly to be found in Plotinus; there are passages that remind one of the later cantos of Dante's Para- diso, and of almost nothing else in literature. Now
Bertrand Russell
#27. There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?
Alain Badiou
#28. Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.
Dalai Lama
#29. Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.
Tarek Saab
#30. Ultimately, all thoughts are sponsored by love or fear. All thoughts, ideas, concepts, understandings, decisions, choices, and actions are based on these. And, in the end, there is really only one. Love. In truth, love is all there is.
Neale Donald Walsch
#31. There is only one religion and that is to love unconditionally. Those who kill in the name of religion are the bigot and biggest nonbeliever.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?.
Barry Long
#33. Before me now there is only one real fact
Death. The truth I have been seeking
this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So
we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.
Bruce Lee
#34. I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.
Jay Weatherill
#35. There is only one sign of life, it is to love and be beloved.
Debasish Mridha
#36. In truth there is only one freedom - the holy freedom of Christ, whereby He freed us from sin, from evil, from the devil. It binds us to God. All other freedoms are illusory, false, that is to say, they are all, in fact, slavery.
Justin Popovic
#37. Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
Leo Tolstoy
#38. Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it's dark
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#39. Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind ...
Erwin Schrodinger
#40. I think in life there is only one absolute truth.
Death ... It's the only definitive horizon, sometime it leaps, runs across mountains and vanishes beyond oceans but the closer you get, the more you see and you know it is the final destination, the absolute truth. We are only living to die.
Crystal Evans
#41. The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.
Parmenides
#42. There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment.
John Kuypers
#43. Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#44. The truth is, I want my choice to drive a knife right through my father's heart, to pierce him with as much pain and embarrassment and disappointment as possible. There is only one choice that can do that.
Veronica Roth
#45. The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.
Soren Kierkegaard
#46. There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.
Leo Tolstoy
#47. The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one way only, and that way is treacherous and hard. And if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.
Neil Gaiman
#48. We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
Gottfried Leibniz
#49. There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [ ... ] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.
Robert Musil
#50. Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.
Sathya Sai Baba
#51. There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.
Vaclav Havel
#52. Evolution lesson #1: There is only one race...the human race. Embrace this truth and evolution can begin. Evolve...or...die...
Kipjo Kenyatta Ewers
#53. We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion is sleeping or crouching in the corner. The only important thing is that ... it's a lion.
Seyoung Kim
#54. Recognizing that God is the only deity that exists is the first step toward obeying him. He is absolute; there is no one who can offer an alternative truth nor assign humankind different instructions.
James Mikolajczyk
#55. There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
Dale Carnegie
#56. His philosophy of life had been that we only live once.
Now there had matured in him the sense of another truth about himself and the world: that we have only one conscience - and that a crippled conscience is as irretrievable as a lost life.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#57. The earliest truth that we're taught is that there's a world alongside this world, with spirits, not mortals, an enchanted universe of fairies, wizards, leprechauns and trolls. They are all around us. One has only to open his eyes.
William Holman Hunt
#58. There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
Mary Renault
#59. There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.
David Hewson
#60. There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter ... That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters ...
Ayn Rand
#61. Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
Chuck Schumer
#62. Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.
William Peter Hamilton
#63. Each of you resides in my heart, as i do in yours, for there is in truth only one heart. You are me. And i cherish you.
Pietro De La Luna
#64. Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.
Roy Stryker
#65. Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.
Friedrich Holderlin
#66. Therefore there is only one form of freedom for Stirner, "my power," and only
one truth, "the magnificent egotism of the stars.
Albert Camus
#67. There is only one way to success and that is love. Love what you want to do, it will be done.
Debasish Mridha
#68. There is only one way into the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are many ways into the human heart: and the Church of Christ, ln its mission of promulgating truth and turning souls of righteousness, has legitimate use for every avenue of the heart.
Orson F. Whitney