Truth Quotes - Page 40

• Too much truth is uncouth.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Reality, Too Much, Uncouth

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Flower, Mean

  Yukio Mishima (1966). “Death in Midsummer, and Other Stories”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

  Rumi

  Philosophy, Heart, Trouble

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.150, Shambhala Publications

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• There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

  O. Henry

  Honesty, Lines, May

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.2395, ShandonPress

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• If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Men, Interesting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

  Christopher Zeeman

  Creativity, Knowledge, Skills

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• Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

  John Donne

  Honesty, Alcohol, Excess

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• Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Honesty, Philosopher, Logic

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

  Alexander Pope

  Honesty, Care, Hares

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.120

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• Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

  William James

  Mean, Reality, Agreement

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.99, Routledge

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• There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

  Charles Hermite

  Mistake, Independent, Math

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• Time discovers truth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Time

  "On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

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• Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lying, I Can, Credible

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• The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Lying, Receiving

  "The Fourfold Way of India" by Rabindranath Tagore, 1924.

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• Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

  Richard Whately

  Wish, Sides

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• Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Lying, Heaven, May

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• Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

  George Washington

  Religious, Freedom, Knowledge

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• I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

  David Duchovny

  Giving Up, Long, X Files

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• You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's all nonsense. Do you behave? Are you free of fear? Are you free of ambition, greed, envy and the desire to achieve success in every field? If not, you are just playing a game. You are not serious.'

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Fear, Ambition, Games

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Allan W. Anderson (1991). “A Wholly Different Way of Living”, p.243, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

  William Howard Taft

  Sea, Worry, Political

  "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft". Book by Henry F. Pringle, 1939.

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• Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody's life and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth, to finding out the truth in our lives. And so his entire philosophy was the philosophy of life. It was not just a philosophy for conflict resolution, but something that we have to imbibe in our life and live it all the time so that we can improve and become better human beings.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Philosophy, Grandfather, Improvement

  "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.

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• During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

  Fritjof Capra

  Knowledge, Giving, Joy

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• The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

  Arianna Huffington

  Trying, Way, Inevitable

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• In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

  Pope John XXIII

  Rights, Justice, Fundamentals

  'Pacem in Terris' (1963)

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• I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

  Chief Joseph

  Believe, Heart, Men

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