33 Quotes Tagged: truths

Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal. Never judge a man by his image. Images can be bought or produced by any Hollywood producer, marketing team or fleet of stylists. Even kids know how to wear amazing costumes for Halloween. Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.

No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

THREE BASIC TRUTHS

Three things have a limited threshold:
Time, pain, and death.
While truth, love, and knowledge –
Are boundless.

Three things are needed
For humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Everything else -
Is irrelevant.

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Todo hombre puede grabar tablas de piedra, o comprar un oráculo, o fingir un comercio secreto con alguna divinidad, o amaestrar un pájaro para hablarle al oído, o encontrar medios groseros para imponer aquéllas a un pueblo. El que no sepa más que esto, podrá hasta reunir un ejército de insensatos; pero nunca fundará un imperio, y su extravagante obra perecerá enseguida con él. Vanos prestigios forman un vínculo pasajero; sólo la sapiencia puede hacerlo duradero.

You share with people who've earned the right to hear your story. ...You have to earn the right to hear my story. It's an honor to hold space for me when I'm in shame.

"If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips.
"Are you dying for him?" she whispered.
"And his wife and child. Hush! Yes."
"Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?"
"Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last."

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

Can you identify in your own life speculations that became educated guesses and then truth? Have you ever seen your established truths upended, with a resulting revolution in your life?

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

We should show life neither as it is, nor as it should be, but as we see it in our dreams.

By our stumbling the world is perfected