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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.
The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true.
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
Look after everybody So that they are happy to see you. It is better to serve the devotee of god than to serve god himself.
Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.
The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.