T Quotes
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“Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.”
“Truth only seems old fashioned nowadays because we've grown so accustomed to deceit and manipulation. But Truth is eternal, so it can never be old or new. It never 'was' or 'will be.' It just 'is.' It always 'is.' Truth never grows old, and if you believe in it and try to live by it, you will always be, in some ways - the only ways that matter - the youngest, freshest, most energetic rebel on the block.”
“Truth only sheds tears when it is ignored.”
“Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.”
Source: Calvinism
“Truth or Care by Stewart Stafford
It's not every day you find out you're going to die,
A sweaty doctor hit me right between the eyes,
With my body's Judas kiss and then I was prey,
Life had left me without any cards to play.
Reading the shocked expression on my face,
The doctor played his "it's treatable" ace,
Treatable is good but curable is better,
Survival hinges on the placement of letters.
Turns out I never had a chance, sadly,
The doctor lied to me and lied badly,
Flop sweat had put truth to the sword,
And I'm writing all this through a ouija board.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“Truth or lie... he had always chosen the lie, to spare his little brother any unpleasant truth.”
Source: Reckless
“Truth, or mystery basically, seeks the expression of itself. That is, evolution exists to create more mystery, not to answer or end the existing mysteries. This is why with every “truth” revealed, or every answer given, all that actually occurs is the creation of yet a more complex and mysterious question.”
Source: Re:
“Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they're not compatible. It's so hard to draw the line.”
“Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.”
Source: The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales
“truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.”
Source: Poetical works
“Truth...Overcome the valley of your despair and it will lead you onto some of the greatest roads of your life!”
Source: Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
“Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Tertullian, Volume 2
“Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.”
Source: The Amethyst Ring: Works by France
“Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.”
Source: The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Wilson, Fifty-eight Years Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man: With His Life
“Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Truth raises more questions than answers, whereas lies are snugly, sure and doubtless.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Truth: Rape does indeed happen between girlfriend and boyfriend, husband and wife. Men who force their girlfriends or wives into having sex are committing rape, period. The laws are blurry, and in some countries marital rape is legal. But it still is rape.”
Source: Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse
“Truth, reality is what makes people clear, real and strong.”
“Truth recognizes truth.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Truth reforms as well as informs.”
Source: An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London
“Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.”
“Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.”
Source: Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
“Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Truth resides where there is faith.”
“Truth resists simplicity.”
“Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men.”
“Truth revealed to us depends on the level of the love in us.”
“Truth reveals itself in beauty.”
Source: Creative Unity
“Truth reveals itself to the inquisitive and runs away from the bigots and cynics”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“Truth rings no bells.”
“Truth's Virtue- Poem Excerpt:
Truth, in all her virtue,
Will be your sunrise, your sunset,
Your morning breeze and your bedtime nest,
She will want a home in your heart,
Guiding your way
As a star that pounces from the heavens,
Chasing cheating ghosts away,
She will be the fruitful soil, from which a sincere and striking beauty will spring free,
With sagely roots to ground her as the mightiest tree.”
Source: Pieces: A Poetry Anthology
“Truth said, “I am your brother.”
Understanding said, “I am your sister.”
Knowledge said, “I am your father.”
Wisdom said, “I am your mother.”
Shallowness said, “I am your rival.”
Ignorance said, “I am your enemy.”
Literacy said, “I am your adversary.”
Stupidity said, “I am your nemesis.”
“Truth, says instrumentalism, is what works out, that which does what you expect it to do. The judgment is true when you can "bank" on it and not be disappointed. If, when you predict, or when you follow the lead of your idea or plan, it brings you to the ends sought for in the beginning, your judgment is true. It does not consist in agreement of ideas, or the agreement of ideas with an outside reality; neither is it an eternal something which always is, but it is a name given to ways of thinking which get the thinker where he started. As a railroad ticket is a "true" one when it lands the passenger at the station he sought, so is an idea "true," not when it agrees with something outside, but when it gets the thinker successfully to the end of his intellectual journey.
Truth, reality, ideas and judgments are not things that stand out eternally "there," whether in the skies above or in the earth beneath; but they are names used to characterize certain vital stages in a process which is ever going on, the process of creation, of evolution. In that process we may speak of reality, this being valuable for our purposes; again, we may speak of truth; later, of ideas; and still again, of judgments; but because we talk about them we should not delude ourselves into thinking we can handle them as something eternally existing as we handle a specimen under the glass.
Such a conception of truth and reality, the instrumentalist believes, is in harmony with the general nature of progress. He fails to see how progress, genuine creation, can occur on any other theory on theories of finality, fixity, and authority; but he believes that the idea of creation which we have sketched here gives man a vote in the affairs of the universe, renders him a citizen of the world to aid in the creation of valuable objects in the nature of institutions and principles, encourages him to attempt things "unattempted yet in prose or rhyme," inspires him to the creation of "more stately mansions," and to the forsaking of his "low vaulted past." He believes that the days of authority are over, whether in religion, in rulership, in science, or in philosophy; and he offers this dynamic universe as a challenge to the volition and intelligence of man, a universe to be won or lost at man’s option, a universe not to fall down before and worship as the slave before his master, the subject before his king, the scientist before his principle, the philosopher before his system, but a universe to be controlled, directed, and recreated by man’s intelligence.”
Source: An Introduction to Philosophy
“Truth searches for no one. It waits to be found.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Truth-seeking is the path to self-annihilation and thus to liberation.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Truth seeks, knowledge finds.
Awareness seeks, experience finds.
Opinions seek, facts find.
Theory seeks, certainty finds.
Knowledge seeks, philosophy finds.
Intelligence seeks, wisdom finds.
Want seeks, need finds.
Desire seeks, fulfillment finds.
Contentment seeks, peace finds.
Pleasure seeks, happiness finds.
Laughter seeks, joy finds.
Compassion seeks, mercy finds.
Humility seeks, honor finds.
Prudence seeks, goodness finds.
Innocence seeks, freedom finds.
Virtue seeks, love finds.
Followers seek, leaders find.
Scholars seek, sages find.
Sinners seek, saints find.
Religion seeks, spirituality finds.
Education seeks, enlightenment finds.
The mind seeks, the heart finds.
The heart seeks, the soul finds.
The soul seeks, the spirit finds.
The spirit seeks, God finds.
Reality seeks, fate finds.
Experience seeks, destiny finds.
Time seeks, immortality finds.
The world seeks, the universe finds.
The past seeks, the present finds.
The present seeks, the future finds.
The future seeks, eternity finds.
Time seeks, eternity finds.
Risk seeks, fortune finds.
Peace seeks, harmony finds.
Nature seeks, Heaven finds.
Life seeks, Paradise finds.”
“Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.”
“Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.”
“Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.”
“Truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.”
“Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.”
Source: Miscellanies. In Four Volumes
“Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.”
Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies
“Truth should be the power, power shouldn't be the truth.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Truth should never travel faster than love.”
“Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.”
“Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.”
“Truth, simplicity and love. These are the three main aspects of Eden Fruitarianism which the acolyte seeks to embrace, expand and better understand.”
Source: The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
“Truth sits on the lips of dying men. The world of fire and ice reveals truth, which exist in the eternal passion and eternal pain that drives humankind to create, explore, and reflect upon all aspects of existence.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.”
Source: Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold