“The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes- dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery.” KnowsMenLifeGivingHumansHeartHas BeensEnoughSpiritDesirePurposeForceResultsMoralEnvironmentExpressionTruth IsClothesDignityUltimateFinalsRecoveryDustAshesHuman SpiritMonumentAnchorsInsatiableSearch For TruthDesire For Knowledge Author:Raymond B. Fosdick
“an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.” KnowsBookLinesResultsReaderTruth IsCatSmellInstanceDustSpiteAutobiographyExtinctionSpectatorsDiligenceTruestDisinterestedBetween The LinesRemorseless Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.” KnowsMenWorldWantFirstsLongIdeasEnoughLyingCertainOrderSpeakWishDifficultGrowthResultsDealsStudyTruth IsLong TimeBuiltFoundationOneselfAcquireConceptionDifficult ThingsSpeak The Truth Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“The truths of Christianity are constant, unchanging, and meant for all people, times, and places. But the methods by which truth is articulated and practiced must be culturally appropriated, and therefore constantly translated. If doctrine is constant and practice is constantly changing, the result is living orthodoxy.” PeopleIfsResultsChristianityPracticeTruth IsMethodConstantDoctrineOrthodoxyUnchanging Author:Mark Driscoll
“Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.” PeopleIfsBelieveLawResultsSuccessfulTruth IsDirectMaking MoneyProportionLots Of MoneyBackwards Author:Earl Nightingale
“Many a truth is the result of an error.” TruthResultsTruth IsErrors Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.” ShouldHumansCertainValuesInterestHuman BeingsResultsAttentionTeachingPossibilityObjectsTruth IsPureActivityGoodnessTrainingAdvantageShould HaveAimApplicationInstruction Book:Gravity and Grace Source: Gravity and Grace
“Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in working for others in the world. But until we find our inner truth, our work in the world will always revolve around our 'selves'. As long as we think about the world in terms of 'self' and 'others', our actions will be selfish. Our 'self' follows us wherever we go, so positive results will be limited.” ThinkingWorldLongSelfMightActionSpiritualLyingTermResultsTruth IsSelfishSelflessnessOur ActionsBeing SelfishEgocentricSpiritual TruthPositive Results Author:Tarthang Tulku
“People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the richest. Therefore, I'm the best. God's in his heaven, etc." And that reaction of the robber barons was so irritating to people that it made it unfashionable to think of an economy as an ecosystem. But the truth is that it is a lot like an ecosystem. And you get many of the same results.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMadeHeavenResultsEconomyTruth IsSurvivalInvestingReactionsDoctrineMade ItEtcDeservingEcosystemsIrritatingRobbersSurvival Of The FittestBest GodRobber Baron Author:Charlie Munger
“Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.” LifeTwoReasonMotivationalWaitingResultsTruth IsTwo ThingsProcrastinationThings In LifeTrapsStop ProcrastinationAlways Waiting Author:Robert Anthony
“All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.” HardResultsColdTruth IsMethodReachingCreating Beauty Book:Notes of Thought Source: Notes of Thought
“Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!” PhilosophyResultsFictionDarknessTruth IsEmptyUselessEmpiresProvenWreckageLumberMight Is Right Author:Anton Szandor LaVey
“Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in real life of the ideal of truth. Shanthi (Peace) is the result of Dharma and Preme (Love) is the sffulgence of Shanthi.” MenRealActionLove IsResultsTruth IsIdealsReal LifePracticalsApplicationDharmaUntrueRight Action Author:Sathya Sai Baba