Quotes: truth

Whenever understanding exists, accepting or rejecting is unnecessary.
The mind that believes, the mind that does not believe and the mind that doubts is an ignorant mind.
The path of wisdom does not lie in believing, not believing or doubting.
The path of wisdom consists in inquiring, analyzing, meditating, experimenting.
Truth is the unknown from moment to moment. Truth has nothing to do with what one believes or stops believing, neither does it have anything to do with skepticism.
Truth is not a matter of accepting or rejecting, it is something to experience, live and understand.
~Samuel Aun Weor

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of the siren, till she transforms us into beasts. "—Patrick Henry

'One basic truth can be used as a foundation for a mountain of lies, and if we dig down deep enough in the mountain of lies, and bring out that truth, to set it on top of the mountain of lies; the entire mountain of lies will crumble under the weight of that one truth, and there is nothing more devastating to a structure of lies than the revelation of the truth upon which the structure of lies was built, because the shock waves of the revelation of the truth reverberate, and continue to reverberate throughout the Earth for generations to follow, awakening even those people who had no desire to be awakened to the truth.'---Delamer Duverus [source]

"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." -Herbert Agar

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." ----- Galileo Galilei

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." --Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

"Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe."--Voltaire
"One has to be empowered in order to understand even the simplest of truths."---Don Croft

"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."----Goethe

“The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. ” - Jean de la Bruyère

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures. --Krishnamurti

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Krishnamurti

"There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are simple, clear, and there is love in your heart; not if your heart is filled with the things of the mind."---Krishnamurti

First they ignore it, then they laugh at it, then they say they knew it all along. --Alexander Humbold

“The truth is not found in a different set of circumstances. The truth is always and only found in the circumstances you’ve got.--Werner Erhard

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

“Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.” Buddha, Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta

"It does not require many words to speak the truth."- Chief Joseph: (1840-1904) Chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce Indians

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
Joseph Joubert

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ---Josh Billings

"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth." -- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901

"They must find it difficult...those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority."---Gerald Massey

“The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.”
-Remy de Gourmont

"The truth may hurt for awhile - and usually does -But it heals forever - without fail"

Truth is more important than public belief, and any man who feels the need to adjust his knowledge so as to receive public approval is a man unworthy of trust.--Toltec motto

'Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It’s something you have to find out for yourself.' -----Noam Chomsky

It's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth."---- Don Juan

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.- - William Blake

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. --Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Truth is not a religion, the correct denomination, the teachings of some great man or woman, a body of knowledge, the "right" book, a deep philosophy, the correct concept or a set of laws or governing principles. It can never be ascertained through the "scientific method," logic or reasoning. All these are instruments that fall far short of being able to fathom "the Truth." The Truth is a person who can only be known through a deep, intimate personal relationship in covenant. Covenant is an exchange of lives. You will NEVER know the truth until "The Truth" becomes your life and your life becomes His. Truth requires absolute, total surrender to the Son of God. It is an exchange of life in the most intimate way in the universe. It is a marriage of souls. It is a bond that sets free. It is a paradox. And when you enter this paradox, you will be free indeed AND you will then also know True LOVE." Gary Amirault, founder of Tentmaker Ministries.

“The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.” George Orwell in the book 1984

“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.” Herbert Sebastien Agar

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), American humorous journalist

“A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.” Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658), Spanish philosopher and writer

“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.” William Blake

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” Spencer Johnson

The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. --Stephen Hawking

Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. --Rev. Denny Brake

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.-- Blaise Pascal

We are often unprepared for Truth, which is why Truth is revealed to us progressively. --Chip Brogden

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.-- John Gilmore

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. -- Vincent de Paul

The folks who know the truth aren't talking…. The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up! --Tom Waits

"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."--Samuel Butler (1835-1902 Notebooks)

"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older."--Montaigne (Of repentance)

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.--Oscar Wilde

The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. ~ Mark Twain

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. ~ Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791 ~

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
- Bible, John (ch. VIII, v. 32)

"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic. --Dresden James

"The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us."(61)—— Alice Miller.

"The problem with the War on Disease, as with any other type of war, is that the first victim is Truth. It is a postulate of war that one exaggerates one's successes and tries to bury ones failures."-------Stan Lippmann

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered... --Nathaniel Branden

"It is easier for a king to have a lie believed than a beggar to spread the truth."---Robert Strecker MD http://aidsbiowar.com/

"Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all."--Peter Mere Latham

"A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the ‘truth’." ---Skrabanek

"The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted."--G. C. Lichtenberg (1742–99), German physicist and philosopher

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

"You don’t have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system – a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars" – for that is what their essential function is – to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies". -- Noam Chomsky

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"The essence nature of the Brahmin is an urge to know the truth...the true Brahmin pursues truth at all costs and will not permit considerations of comfort or convenience to stand in his way. His most outstanding characteristic is his objectivity, his ability to rise above the dust of the arena, to resist the hypnotising effects of words and the blind passion of cults, political or religious."---Robert S. de Ropp (The Master Game p134)

But my work is not a hypothesis and I'm not seeking to entertain or divert. My work is for those who can bear the full glare of reality; whose heart and mind and soul have been sufficiently cleansed that when certain truths are articulated these truths "speak" to that person in a profound way. Such truth is discarded for the next novelty only at the peril of the person who received this gift sinking back - perhaps irretrievably - into the chaos and confusion which is the hallmark of one of the many viruses seeded by the Cryptocracy during the final stage of the alchemical "Must Be" - the Making Manifest of all that is Hidden. The Scapegoating of Ted Kaczynski: Cereal Murder and the Group Mind ---Joan d'Arc Interviews Michael Hoffman, II

The Reptoid establishment however, has only one purpose, to detach the Monkeys of the Spiritual Forests of God and predate on them. In order to do that - it must paint a picture of death and finite constraints. Thus it builds religions out of death, and sets up barriers between the questing souls and God. It denies us eternity and says that our souls are but material that will perish. It says that our eternity is small and constrained - and denies us the scientific advance we need to explore it.
    It gives the monkey no hope in a world that is a diseased slaughterhouse, and using its telepathic predators, harvests the despair of monkey dissolution whilst opening up the monkey soul and shell to the frightening possibility of demonic reptile possession.
    At that point, the monkeys are faced with a science that cannot or will not explain its predicament, and telepathic reptoid wise men and doctors who do know but perpetuate the disease and the hosting in the name of their ancient ancestors. The monkeys have nowhere to turn except to believe that they are mentally and spiritually diseased and blind to the reptoid deceit and motives happily partake of destructive pharmaceuticals in the misplaced trust that these chemicals will make their problem go away.
    The only cure for mismanaged reality, however, is Truth. Chapter 4-6 MONKEYS OF EDEN - the telepathic Overlords and the Slaves of Earth

"Nearly 2500 years ago the Greeks had already realized that one of the most important of empirical facts is that correct explanations are nearly always simple explanations. There is a fragment (176) in Aeschylus, from the last play, that says so ('for the words of truth are simple').....This is also in line with the expressed belief of one of the great architects of modern nuclear physics the late Lord Rutherford, that if a theory is any good, it should be understandable by an ordinary barmaid."---- T.L. Cleave (The Saccarine Disease 1974 p.iv)

The difficulty in obtaining honest information in today’s Big Brother world is aptly described by an intelligence asset over the Internet, "If you are lucky and work hard, you will find some of the truth. If you are lucky and work REALLY hard, you might find the WHOLE truth...as someone wants you to know it. If you are PHENOMENALLY lucky and really work your tail off, you might even go on to find the REAL truth. But no outsiders...and in fact, very few insiders ever ... EVER ... learn the WHOLE REAL truth." Deeper Insights into the Illuminati Formula by Fritz Springmeier & Cisco Wheeler