Truth Is Quotes - Page 21

• Truth is the right designation of God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Designation

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Self, Fruit

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• Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Self, Acting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Devotion, Sole

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.45, Oxford University Press

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• Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Answers, Vehement

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Coward, Violence, Habit

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• The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Wisdom, Fun, Simple

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• I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, Thinking, Worry

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

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• No matter how much you try and make your surroundings suitable for creativity, if the enviornment inside of you isn't creatively healthy then you won't be able to make the art you want. Being in tune with yourself and your inner truth, being at peace in there, is the best way to nurture your creativity. Then you can even make a bad enviornment a good one.

  Gerard Way

  Art, Creativity, Healthy

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 02, 2014.

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• There definitely have been a few roles that involved showing some skin but I'm not afraid of showing some skin from time to time. I mean the truth is, when I come home I take all my clothes off anyway so I'm kind of used to being naked.

  Nolan Gerard Funk

  Home, Mean, Clothes

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Trying, Spirituality

  "Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

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• I'm moving - as a person and as a writer - through time. I'm a different age. I'm thinking about different things. I have different life experiences. I'm trying to get closer to being honest. And by closer I mean that at different ages I have different ideas of what the truth is, and at any point I'm trying to express that at that moment in time.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

  "Charlie Kaufman on Synecdoche, New York". Interview with Tim Ryan, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 22, 2008.

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• A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Pain, Children

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I'm a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy on set.

  Julie Delpy

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Julie Delpy – ‘Lolo’". www.indiewire.com. September 16, 2015.

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• We have been taught to "just eat a balanced diet." We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works.

  Andrew Saul

  Healing, Taught, Natural

  Source: www.drpasswater.com

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• I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.

  Stromae

  Growing Up, Simple, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  People, Fiction, Poverty

  Source: slushpile.net

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• I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.

  Stephen Schneider

  Funny, Integrity, Games

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• Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force, or artistry, one needs to 'create' a form of expression, and this form determines its own "genuine information".

  Philip Schultz

  Emotional, Expression, Order

  Source: poems.com

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• 70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Rubio Delivers Address on 50th Anniversary of the 'War on Poverty'". www.rubio.senate.gov. January 08, 2014.

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• I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.

  John Hodgman

  Believe, Literary Theory, Yale

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

  John Hodgman

  Thinking, Awful

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

  George R. R. Martin

  Beauty, Instruments, Knows

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: A Game of Thrones, Dreamsongs: Volume I, Fevre Dream, Armageddon Rag”, p.1045, Bantam

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• Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

  Voltaire

  Truth, Fruit, Ripe

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

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Truth, Men, Culture

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