Alan Watts Quotes, Truth Quotes, Lying Quotes

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Truth Quotes , Lying Quotes

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Truth Quotes , Care Quotes

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Truth Quotes , Lying Quotes

When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Truth Quotes , Soldier Quotes

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Truth Quotes , Honesty Quotes

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Truth Quotes , Taken Quotes

On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Truth Quotes , Hills Quotes

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Truth Quotes , Law Quotes

No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Truth Quotes , Soul Quotes

By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Dream Quotes , Truth Quotes

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Truth Quotes , Men Quotes

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Truth Quotes , Writing Quotes

On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Truth Quotes , Hills Quotes

There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Truth Quotes , Moon Quotes

The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Truth Quotes

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Truth Quotes , War Quotes

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Truth Quotes , Heartless Quotes

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Truth Quotes , Failure Quotes

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Truth Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Truth Quotes , Science Quotes