W Quotes
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“What is true in the South is true for America.”
“What is true is [Bashar] Assad got rid of his chemical weapons.”
“What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.”
“What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.”
Source: Vincent van Gogh
“What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who will want it most. Obviously, our democratic system tends to give power to those who hunger for it and gives every opportunity to those who don't want power to avoid getting it. Not a very satisfactory arrangement if power corrupts those who believe in it and want it.”
Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
“What is true is true, and what is false is false.”
“What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.”
“What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.”
“What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.”
Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household
“What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.”
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
“What is true, and I think that we can't deny it, is that some of the same concerns about globalization, about technology, rapid social change that were reflected in Brexit, that's been reflected in some of the debates in Germany and France and other places, that those exist in the United States as well. My view is that over the long term, over the next 10, 15, 20 years, if we are able to address the legitimate economic concerns of those who feel left behind by globalization, then many of these tensions will be reduced. And we will see a world that is less divided.”
“What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.”
“What is true, though, is now we've got a bunch of videos that whatever side of the issue you're on, raises the temperature on these issues and makes people really focused .”
“What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.”
“What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.”
Source: The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
“What is truly beautiful has nothing to fear from disfigurement.”
Source: An Actor Prepares
“What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.”
“What is truly real is Consciousness, because it is One, always was and always will be. The universes and you come and go. There are Many, so they must be temporary illusions. Only One exists in the eternity of the Now and, therefore, only One is real, by Gardener.”
Source: How to Kiss the Universe: An Inspirational Spiritual and Metaphysical Narrative about Human Origin, Essence and Destiny
“What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions?”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“What is truth? he asked
We place faith in ourselves, replied Altaïr
What is the world then?
An illusion, One we can either submit to, like most people do, or transcend from
So what does it mean to transcend? he replied
To recognize that laws arise not from divinity or power, but from reason. I understand now that our creed doesn’t force us to be free, It forces us to be wiser to those who are challenged by the idea of it”
Source: Assassins Creed The Secret Crusade by Bowden, Oliver [Ace,2011]
“What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That's what I told her. Because through our convictions of good and bad, of evil and pure, we taint the truth with our own filters and our own desires. Truth is no respecter of what that man over there thinks is good or of what that woman over there thinks is evil. Truth remains as Truth, regardless of what you think about it.”
“What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.”
“What is truth?” retorted Pilate. jn 18,38
Must I add that, in the whole New Testament, there appears but a solitary figure worthy of honour? Pilate, the Roman viceroy. To regard a Jewish imbroglio seriously—that was quite beyond him. One Jew more or less—what did it matter?... The noble scorn of a Roman, before whom the word “truth” was shamelessly mishandled, enriched the New Testament with the only saying that has any value—and that is at once its criticism and its destruction: “What is truth?...”
“What is truth?” Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant.”
Source: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“What is Truth (The Sonnet)
There is not one but two truths,
truth of facts and truth of good.
Truth of facts is worth the honor,
when it serves the truth of good.
Truth of facts thrives on logic,
an effective antidote to prejudice.
Where it sucks the sweetness of life,
truth of facts is carrier of malice.
Truth of facts is carrier of logic,
Truth of good is carrier of life.
Often times they cohabit the mind,
sometimes facts only undermine life.
Pride of truth is the good it does,
without which all facts are futile.
Truth of good is truth absolute,
absence of heart makes logic vile.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.”
“WHAT IS TRUTH?
Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
In its meaning
As it is in its reflection.
It is both invisible
And visible.
It carries tons of weight,
But can be carried.
It is understood first through the spirit
Before science,
And felt in the heart,
Before the mind.
Truth is not always heard by reason,
Because reason sometimes
Ignores Truth.
Always listen to your conscience.
Your conscience is your heart
And reason is your mind.
Your mind is simply there to reason
With your heart.
But remember,
Truth is in your heart,
And only through your heart
Can you connect to the light of God.
He who is not motivated by his heart
Will not see Truth,
And he who thinks only with his mind
Will be blind to Truth.
He who does not think
With his conscience,
Does not stand by God,
For the language of light
Can only be decoded by the heart.
He who reads and recites words of God
Also does not stand by God –
If he merely understands
Words with his mind
But not his heart.
Truth is black and white,
And the entire spectrum
Of colors in-between.
It can have many parts,
But has a solid foundation.
Truth lacks perfection,
For it is the reflection of all,
Yet its reflection as a whole,
Is more beautiful
Than the accumulated flaws
Of the small.
Truth is the only brand
Worth breathing
And believing.
So stand for truth
In everything you do,
And only then
Does your life have
Meaning.
Poetry by Suzy Kassem”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.”
Source: The decline of the West
“What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.”
“What is truth? I think stating a truth could be dangerous, because we are locking something in and therefore making it harder for ourselves to change beyond that certain thought or concept.”
“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”
“What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.”
“What is Truth? Truth is the attribute of when the human heart marries the love of God, and the result is passion for your spiritual path.”
“What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead.”
“What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.”
Source: The last temptation of Christ
“What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.”
“What is ultimately motivating the character?”
“What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?”
“What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.”
“What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.”
Source: The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
“What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.”
Source: Democracy in America: Volumes I & II
“What is unfair is, not life, but our demanding—as microscopic a part of life and as unnecessary to life as we are—that life happen as per our desires, which are always selfish … and almost always petty.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by and large, by Englishmen, who have come over from the English Civil War and are fighting in Ireland, and Cromwell is extraordinarily savage against these... Drogheda, after all, was a Protestant”
“What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.”
“What is united in America? Nothing. What has divided America? Racism!”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking 'That is just something that occurred to me there's something wrong with me', is in fact stuff that is universal.”