Truth Quotes

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The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief. — Pema Chodron
The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear.… — Pema Chodron
The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed. — Jack Kornfield
When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and… — Jack Kornfield
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for… — Jack Kornfield
Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels. — Jack Kornfield
The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it… — Dainin Katagiri
If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of… — Dainin Katagiri
The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step. — Seungsahn
Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no… — Lynne Cheney
My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the… — Edmond Rostand
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. — Edmond Rostand
I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and… — Michelangelo Antonioni
Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable. — Bertrand Russell
Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your… — Ivy Lee
Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness. — Gustave Le Bon
Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to… — Joseph Goebbels
A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth — Joseph Goebbels
A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but… — Robert Musil
True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end. — Robert Musil
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear… — Thomas Merton
I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to… — Anne Sexton
There is no religion higher than Truth. — H. P. Blavatsky

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