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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.
What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.
the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.
Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.
Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.
It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.
There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar. [Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.