Truth Is Quotes - Page 36

• The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our minds or our hearts for self-pity, self-loathing or unhappiness with the world in which we live.

  David S. Baxter

  Heart, Helping Others, Self

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• When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Biographies, Remember, Fit

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• The highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself out totally and completely. All of your ideas, your feelings, all have to be emptied out of you. When you become totally and completely empty there is nothing you have to do to fill it up again. Emptiness is realization. Emptiness is Brahman. Emptiness is the Self. Emptiness is your real nature.

  Robert Adams

  Real, Believe, Self

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• Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Solitude, Debate

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• When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be.

  Alan Watts

  Lonely, Feelings, Littles

  Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.90, New World Library

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• I began to appreciate that authentic truth is never simple and that any version of truth handed down from on high - whether by presidents, prime ministers, or archbishops - is inherently suspect. The powerful, I came to see, reveal truth only to the extent that it suits them.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Powerful, Simple, Appreciate

  Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.3, Metropolitan Books

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• Peace without truth is a false peace.

  Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

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• If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

  Frederick Buechner

  Fool, Making A Fool Of Yourself, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Nov 05, 2015

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• For the Christian church.... to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For the sober truth is that without full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Christian, Cutting, Reality

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• The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Records, Facts, Speculation

  Alexander Maclaren (1901). “The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon”

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• The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable.
  It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang.
  Sometimes we expect too much instead of practicing enough
  or receiving in us just the right answer.
  You, the Staggering Answer

  Buddy Wakefield

  Bangs, Receiving, Answers

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• The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.

  J. I. Packer

  Thinking, Facts, Sound

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.34, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Running, Errors

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.127, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity that were once the birthright of Americans. Dissenters who tell their fellow citizens what is really going on are subject to smear campaigns that, like clockwork, are aimed at the political heretic. Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

  Ron Paul

  Lying, Party, Media

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• The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.

  David Boaz

  Girl, Jobs, Children

  David Boaz (1997). “Libertarianism: A Primer”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

  Gregory Corso

  Lying, Fall, Men

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• The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

  William Graham Sumner

  Envy, Lust, Selfishness

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “The Forgotten Man - Rediscovered After Fifty Years ...”

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• Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences-making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality.

  Jack Canfield

  Hurt, Reality, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 02, 2013

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• The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living in an unprecedented way. Neither economic thinking nor historical experience suggests that any other social system could be as beneficial to the masses as capitalism. The results speak for themselves. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: Si monumentum requires, circumspice.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Thinking, People, Historical

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• The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Giving, Magic

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.78, VM eBooks

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• Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason.

  Max Anders

  Religious, Reason, Mathematical

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• New truth is old heresy.

  Steven J Lawson

  Heresy

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• How forthright does the audience want the broadcasters to be? Because when you tell your truth, there's a lot of anger that comes out. I think it's a good question to ask TV people [executives] too. How much truth do they want to be told? How much truth does the league want told? Because the truth isn't just a positive truth. If you're going to tell the truth, you would be telling a lot of positive and some negative.

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Thinking, People, League

  "ESPN 2015 NBA Finals Media Call with Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson". Interview with Gianina Thompson, espnmediazone.com. June 1, 2015.

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• The truth is the committed left press in America is not longer interest in reporting the news. Anything that hinders a favorable view of the far left will be ignored; anything that advances liberal causes will be celebrated. News reporting today is largely about ideology and shaping the culture, not about informing the public.

  Bill O'Reilly

  America, Views, Today

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• But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Healing, Church, Might

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.209, Thomas Nelson Inc

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