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Truth is One;
sages call it by various names.
-Rig Veda
Which way to Truth?
Truth is One,
approaches are different.
-Sivananda Radha 
Although the Truth is one,
there are infinite perspectives to perceive it
and innumerable ways to approach it.
-Steven Sadleir
One truth, many doors.
-Satchidananda
Truth may be expressed in a thousand ways,
each one yet be true.
-Vivekananda
There is only one truth.
There appear to be many truths
because of different understandings.
-Sivananda Radha
Truth is one and the same at all times,
though it is infinite in its manifestations.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes
his little bit the whole to own.
-Richard Francis Burton
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable.
It is disastrous to confuse them.
-Madeleine L'Engle
Truth has two meanings:
there is truth as knowledge of reality,
and truth as reality itself.
-Nikolai Berdyaev
Truth is subjective;
it is individual,
and universal in its individuality.
-Nikolai Berdyaev
Truth has no name,
and truth is not confined to any system of thought.
Truth is not a theory, a theology, a philosophy.
Truth is the experience of that which is.
Truth is not intellectual or emotional;
truth is existential.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"
Truth, like love,
cannot be demonstrated, or explained, or offered.
It is there with all its immensity around us filling all space.
One has only to look.
And to be aware.
-Vanda Scaravelli
Truth is by nature self-evident. 
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, 
it shines clear.
-Mohandas Gandhi 
What is truth?
A difficult question;
but what I have solved it for myself
by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you.
-Mohandas Gandhi
If you want the truth,
I'll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound
Which is inside you.
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi
The Truth is heard
in the silence of your own mind.
-Steven Sadleir
The Truth lies in the silence of your being.
-Steven Sadleir
Truth's place is in the heart.
-Yunus Emre
To see the truth does not depend
on a big intellect or a small intellect.
It depends on being in contact with the Truth
and the mind silent and quiet enough to receive it.
-Aurobindo Ghose
Truth is within ourselves;
it takes no rise from outward thing,
whate'er you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness.
-Robert Browning
Truth is the agreement
of the mind with itself.
-Plotinus
The truth is not for all men,
but only for those who seek it.
-Ayn Rand
Utter truth is essential...
and to get that truth
may take a lot of searching and long hours.
-Margaret Bourke-White
Truth is the daughter of time,
and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
-Johannes Kepler
For truth there is no deadline.
-Heywood Campbell Broun
How much truth can the mind endure,
how much can it dare to entertain?
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth does not hurt,
rather, it is our resistance to its message
that causes pain.
-Vernon Howard
Truth can be tolerated
only if you discover it for yourself.
-Fritz Perls
Look for the truth,
it wants to be found.
-Blaise Pascal
The Ocean

Do not look after the truth,
but let the truth come in.
-Sang H. Kim
Truth lies within a little and certain compass,
but error is immense.
-Henry St. John
That truth lies somewhere,
if we knew but where.
-William Cowper
The truth you seek is not hidden from you.
You are hiding from it.
-Rami M. Shapiro
The terrible thing about the quest for truth
is that you find it.
-Remy de Gourmont
The truth will set you free.
But not until it is finished with you.
-David Foster Wallace
Many a truth has lain unnoticed for a long time,
ignored simply because no one perceived
its potential for becoming reality.
-Albert Schweitzer
No aim can be higher
than that of seeking truth,
and no reward can be greater
than that of finding the truth.
-Christian Larson
If you cannot find the Truth
right where you are,
where else do you expect to find it?
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole search for truth
is for unity and for continuity.
-Ashokananda
The search for truth
is but the honest searching out
of everything that interferes with truth.
-A Course in Miracles
Truth, like gold,
is to be obtained not by its growth,
but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
There is no such error
as the pursuit of truth.
-Samuel Smiles
Truth is the daughter of Inspiration;
analysis and debate keep the people away from Truth.
-Kahlil Gibran
People who seek the truth
by means of intellect and learning
only get further and further away from it.
-Huang-Po
The more talking and thinking,
The farther from the truth.
-Seng-tsan
Truth transcends all concepts of the mind.
-David Frawley
Truth is that which lies in a dimension
beyond the reach of thought.
-Wei Wu Wei
If you wish to learn the highest truth,
you must begin with the alphabet.
-Japanese Proverb
The language of truth is always simple.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Most of the basic truths of life
sound absurd at first hearing.
-Elizabeth Gouge
The simplest and most necessary truths
are always the last believed.
-John Ruskin
The higher the truth,
the simpler it is.
-Abraham Isaac Kook
The truth is too simple:
one must always get there by a complicated route.
-George Sand
Truth is simple.
The more simple you are
and the more you seek for simplicity,
the nearer you come to truth.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
All truths wait in all things.
-Walt Whitman
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
-Galileo Galilei
What we call basic truths
are simply the ones we discover after all the others.
-Albert Camus
Time discovered truth.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For time will teach ye
soon the truth.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The truth never arrives neatly wrapped.
-Thomas Powers
The truth invariably arrives
several years after you need it.
-Mary Kay Blakely
Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog
without dispelling it.
-Claude Adrien Helvetius
Nothing is so sure to make itself known as the truth,
for what else waits to be known?
-Henry David Thoreau
Truth will not be ignored.
It will rise up and consume us.
-Katharine Wylde
Be prepared for Truth at all hours
and in the most fantastic disguises.
This is the only safety.
-Christopher Morley
Truth strikes us from behind, and in the dark,
as well as from before and in broad daylight.
-Henry David Thoreau
Accept the truth
from whatever source it comes.
-Maimonides
Welcome Truth
from whatever corner it may come.
-Sivananda
Truth enters the mind so easily
that when we hear it for the first time
it seems as we were simply recalling it to memory.
-Bernard de Fontenelle
Some expressions of truth are reminiscent, -
others merely sensible, as the phrase is, -
others prophetic.
-Henry David Thoreau
Let us accept truth,
even when it surprises us
and alters our views.
-George Sand
Truth is present everywhere.
You only need eyes to see it.
-Yunus Emre
You can be standing right in front of the truth
and not necessarily see it,
and people only get it when they're ready to get it.
-George Harrison
Seeing a truth is not a matter of time;
either you see it or you don't see.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension -
you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.
-Lawrence Durrell
Truth lives in that which goes
behind and beyond the visible and sensible.
-Aurobindo Ghose
It is with the interior eye
that truth is seen.
-Saint Augustine
In all perceptions of the truth
there is a divine ecstasy,
an inexpressible delirium of joy.
-Henry David Thoreau
When the truth dawns in you
it is like when the sun rises
and all the gray walls are colored pink.
-Nigerian Medicine Man
Nothing is more delightful
than the light of truth.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
I know the truth
only when it becomes light in me.
-Soren Kierkegaard
What is true in the lamplight
is not always true in the sunlight.
-Joseph Joubert
To know the Truth is to experience it
not merely understand it with intellect.
-Sivananda
You must experience the truth,
not believe it.
-Werner Erhard
We know the truth,
not only by the reason,
but also by the heart.
-Blaise Pascal
Truth can neither be studied nor taught nor learned;
it is to be touched, it is to be realized;
and it can be realized by the unfoldment of the heart.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The highest truth we can find
must be a truth which is identical
with the inmost nature of ourselves;
each one must discover it by himself.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
-Walt Whitman
That to which you can surrender yourself
spontaneously, unreservedly and without qualification,
and yet remain the fullness of yourself,
is the Truth for you.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Truth is inner harmony.
-Walther Rathenau
Truth is that from which conscience can be at peace.
-Yiannis Giorgiades
The supreme truths are
neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning
nor the affirmation of credal statements,
but fruits of the soul's experience.
-Aurobindo Ghose
Seek the truth:
it always shows us what we should do,
what we should not do,
and what we should stop doing.
-Leo Tolstoy
The man himself must become other than he was
if he wants to comprehend the truth -
must become as true as truth itself.
-Max Stirner
The Truth we seek
must completely fill our being
and pour through every expression of ourselves
in thought, feeling and action.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
I must ask truth, and speak truth,
and act with truth, now and forever.
-Lillian Hellman
I can nourish myself on nothing but truth.
-Therese of Lisieaux
Whenever you sincerely
want to know the truth,
you do know it.
-Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother"
There is nothing more easy than to come to the gate of truth;
there is nothing more difficult than to enter it.
- Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
To understand the currents of a river,
he who wishes to know the truth
must enter the water.
-Nisaragadatta
The farther you enter into the truth,
the deeper it is.
-Bankei Zenji
Truth is infinite,
and as we delve more deeply into it,
we shall find yet greater depths, wider latitudes,
and ever-new dimensions.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Talking about truth is not Truth.
-Anthony Paul Moo-Young, "Mooji"
Truth speaks but few words
-The Oculatum
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
-Rabindranath Tagore
There is no such thing as "the truth" that can be stated.
-Alan Watts
The truth cannot be said for many reasons.
The first and most basic is
that truth is always realized in silence.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"
The truth cannot adequately be conveyed
from one to another,
it can only be progressively self-realized.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth is always approximate.
Truth is a tendency.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
A Hair perhaps divides
the False and True.
-Omar Khayyam
So near is falsehood to truth
that a wise man would do well
not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Truth is approached by degrees.
-Sivananada Radha
There are degrees of truth,
but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm.
-Gary Zukav
Everybody has known truth
in different degrees.
-Rodney Collin
Exactitude is not truth.
-Henri Matisse
There's a world of difference
between truth and facts.
-Maya Angelou
In the spider-web of facts,
many a truth is strangled.
-Paul Eldridge
Truth belongs to Life,
as facts belong to form.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Facts lose their color in the face of truth,
as stars pale before the sun.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The truth is more important
than the facts.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Facts and truth
really don't have much to do with each another.
-William Faulkner
Facts cannot explain Truth,
but Truth can explain facts.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Facts can be put into words
but not the truth.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
What is laid down, ordered, factual,
is never enough to embrace the whole truth.
-Boris Pasternak
There is a distinction between fact and truth.
Truth has an element of revelation about it.
If something is true,
it does more than strike one as merely being so.
-Lucien Freud
It is never possible by pure reason
to arrive at some absolute truth.
-Werner Heisenberg
You can only find truth with logic
if you have already found truth without it.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truth is above all man-made sides and positions.
-Vernon Howard
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability.
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
-Bruce Lee
The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms;
Truth has no form.
-Idries Shah
Truth is process, not content.
-Cheri Huber
The way to the truth is as significant as the truth itself,
being an aspect or extension thereof.
Truth is not merely what is at the end,
but is also in the movement that discloses that end.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Truth is a "pathless land,"
because Intuition is pathless.
-Nilankantha Sri Ram
Truth has no beginning.
-Mary Baker Eddy
Truth is universal and timeless.
-Marcus Bach
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues,
is older than sects and schools,
and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
Truth - is as old as God.
-Emily Dickinson
All truths are old,
and all that we have to do
is recognize and utter them anew.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The eternal truths cannot be transmitted mechanically;
in every epoch they must be born anew
from the human psyche.
-Carl Jung
New truth is always a go-between,
a smoother-over of transitions.
It marries old opinion to new fact
so as ever to show a minimum of jolt,
a maximum of continuity.
-William James
All old truths want a new interpretation,
so that they can live on in a new form.
We need to take these thought-forms,
that have become historically fixed,
and melt then down again
and pour them into the moulds
of immediate experience.
-Carl Jung
Truth is simple, and will not be antique;
is ever present
and insists on being of this age and of this moment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments
if it is to appeal to a new age.
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
Truth has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now - always.
-Albert Schweitzer
Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
-William Shakespeare
Truth does not change.
That is the criterion of Truth.
-Sivananda
Truth never changes,
 but our understanding of it does
-Frederick Bailes
It is the property of truth to diffuse itself.
-William Godwin
Truth is truth
and admits no dilution or compromise.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Truth leans neither to this side nor to that.
it is balanced, impartial and just.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
The river of truth is always splitting up
into arms that reunite.
Islanded between them,
the inhabitants argue for a lifetime
as to which is the mainstream.
-Cyril Connelly
There are no whole truths;
all truths are half-truths.
It is trying to treat them
as whole truths that plays the devil.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Pushing truth out very far,
you are met by a counter-truth.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Every truth has two sides.
It is well to look at both
before we commit ourselves to either.
-Aesop
Truth has only two sides, 
but it's the third side that's best.
-Eugène Ionesco 
A truth which needs to be proved
is a half-truth.
-Kahlil Gibran
Two half-truths do not make a truth.
-Arthur Koestler
The nature of truth is not two.
-Jerry Katz
A great truth is a truth
whose opposite is also a great truth.
-Thomas Mann
 Only those thoughts are true
the opposite of which is also true
in its own time and application.
-Aurobindo Ghose
All great truths are simple in final analysis,
and easily understood;
if they are not, they are not great truths.
-Napoleon Hill
Truth is our element of life,
yet it a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth
and apply himself to that alone for a long time,
the truth becomes distorted and not itself but a falsehood.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent
due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth,
treated as if it were a whole truth.
-Arthur Koestler
Say not, "I have found the truth,"
but rather, "I have found a truth."
-Kahlil Gibran
Who dares
To say that he alone has found the truth?
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 I know that the opposite of what I say is true,
but for the present what I say is still truer.
-Aurobindo Ghose
No sentence will hold the whole truth.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unfortunately we never fully grasp the import of any true statement
until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. 
-William James
I became mentally bifocal,
and so I learned early to understand
that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth.
There is only truth as people see it,
and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety.
-Pearl S. Buck
Truth is many-sided and infinite;
one must be open to any new aspect of it
which may be uncovered,
or which may be possible for him to discover.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Behind one truth there is always yet another.
-Lloyd Alexander
No one thing is true.
It's all true.
-Ernest Hemingway
No truth is complete or even real
which does not include its opposite,
and all that occurs in between.
-Dane Rudhyar
All truth is a shadow except the last—yet every truth is true in its kind.
It is substance in its own place, though it be but a shadow in another place,
(for it is but a shadow from an intenser substance;)
and the shadow is a true shadow, as the substance is a true substance.
-Isaac Penington
All truth is relative to the context within which it exists.
-Strephon Kaplan-Williams
All perception of truth
is the detection of an analogy.
-Henry David Thoreau
Truth is always relative to a conceptual system
that is defined in large part by metaphor. 
-George Lakoff and Mark Johnson,
Two elements are necessary to form a truth -
a fact and an abstraction.
-Remy de Gourmont
Truth is always paradoxical.
-Henry David Thoreau
A higher truth,
though only dimly hinted at,
thrills us more than a lower expressed.
-Henry David Thoreau
The Truth is the absolute absence
of any kind of truth.
-Wei Wu Wei
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
-Yogananda
Truth without a veil
is always uninteresting to the human mind.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy,
what discloses itself without a veil.
-R. D. Laing
One of the sublimest things in the world
is plain truth.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful,
and the simpler its expression
the deeper is the impression it makes.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Craftiness must have clothes,
but truth loves to go naked.
-English Proverb
There are truths one can only say
after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
Our own life is the instrument
with which we experiment with the truth.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
To get to know a truth properly,
one must polemicize it.
-Novalis
To know a truth well,
one must have fought it out.
-Novalis
Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth
without running into extremes;
we have frequently to exhaust the part of error,
or even folly,
before we work our way up to the noble goal
of tranquil wisdom.
-Friedrich von Schiller
Truth...must be clothed with flesh and blood,
or it cannot tell its whole story.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
The finest and noblest ground
on which people can live is truth.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the only safe ground
to stand upon.
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Stand by the power of truth
under every circumstance.
-Christian Larson
Only the truth that builds up
is truth for you.
-Soren Kierkegaard
A truth is powerful
in such measure as we assimilate it.
-Frithjof Schuon
We can understand truths, and love truths,
and wish to live by them,
long before we are able to live that way.
-Peter S. Rhodes
There are aspects of Truth
which can be discovered only within oneself,
and in no other way;
and these are the most valuable part of life.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Because Truth is one,
there is no truth for the individual
except outside his own living.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Truth isn't something that you look for;
it's something that you live.
-Wayne Dyer
It is only your Truth
when you become it.
-Steven Sadleir
Truth exists only as the individual himself
produces it in action.
-Soren Kierkegaard
It is only by translating into action
what is perceived as truth
that one fully realizes its nature.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
It is not truth that makes man great,
but man that makes truth great.
-Confucius
The secret of genius
is to honor every truth by use.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest homage
we can pay to truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The one condition
coupled with the gift of truth is its use.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course you have to be absolutely truthful!
How else would you know the truth?
-Ashokananda
Think of truth, know it, speak it -
become it!
-Ashokananda
The truth is always exciting.
Speak it, then.
Life is dull without it.
-Pearl S. Buck
I speak truth, not as much as I would,
but as much as I dare;
and I dare to so so a little more as I grow older.
-Michel de Montaigne
The truth cannot be asserted
without denouncing the falsehood.
-Leslie Stephen
It is almost impossible
to bear the torch of truth through a crowd
without singeing somebody's beard.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Most of the wounds inflicted by truth
can be healed only by more truth.
-Simon May
Speak the truth -
no matter what comes of it.
-Ellen Glasgow
What would happen
if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
-Muriel Rukeyser
We live in a culture
that would absolutely fall apart
if the truth were told.
-R. D. Laing
Pure truth could burst the world apart.
-Nikolai Berdyaev
Truth's like a fire,
and will burn through and be seen.
-Maxwell Anderson
Pure undistorted truth
burns up the world.
-Nikolai Berdyaev
Truth is on the march
and nothing can stop it.
-Emile Zola
Truthfulness often goes with ruthlessness.
-Dodie Smith
Are we to go out with trumpets
and tell everything we know,
just because it is true?
-Constance Fenimore Woolson
The further a society drifts from truth,
the more it will hate those who speak it.
-George Orwell
The truth is seldom welcome,
especially at dinner.
-Margaret Atwood
Truth-tellers are not always palatable.
There is a preference for candy bars.
-Gwendolyn Brooks
Many a truth is spoken in jest.
-Anonymous
Give a man a mask
and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
The Truth, they say, must be naked
in order to differentiate it from all the masks.
-Jean Beauchard
There are few nudities so objectionable
as the naked truth.
-Agnes Repplier
A child, a drunkard and a fool
tell the truth.
-Hungarian Proverb
In every generation there has to be some fool
who will speak the truth as he sees it.
-Boris Pasternak
There are only two ways
of telling the complete truth -
anonymously and posthumously.
-Thomas Sowell
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
-Matthew Arnold
All truths are not to be told.
-George Herbert
One handles truths like dynamite.
-Anais Nin
If you speak the truth,
have a foot in the stirrups.
-Turkish Proverb
Speak the truth,
but leave immediately after.
-Slovenian Proverb
Tell the truth and run.
-Yugoslavian Proverb
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -
Success in Circuit lies.
-Emily Dickinson
It is good to know the truth,
but it is better to speak of palm trees.
-Arabic Proverb
A truth is to be known always,
but to be uttered sometimes.
-Kahlil Gibran
The truth is not simply what you think it is;
it is also the circumstances in which it is said,
and to whom, why and how it is said.
-Vaclav Havel
Great is truth, but still greater,
from a practical point of view,
is silence about truth.
-Aldous Huxley
One who says the truth
says hardly anything.
-Antonio Porchia
Highly evolved beings do not "tell" the truth.
They are the truth.
-Neale Donald Walsche
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
-Lawrence Durrell
I don't tell the truth any more
to those who can't make use of it.
I tell it to myself,
because it always changes me.
-Anais Nin
It takes two to speak the truth -
one to speak and another to hear.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is always hard to hear the buried truth
from another person.
-May Sarton
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself
in the interest of truth or some other abstraction.
-Doris Lessing
Not even the most devastating truth can be told;
it must be evoked.
-Joyce Carol Oates
The truth is the kindest thing
we can give folks in the end.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
But truth is not spoken in anger.
Truth is spoken,
if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
-John Maxwell Coetzee
The only way to speak the truth
is to speak it lovingly.
-Henry David Thoreau
Only speak the truth
that is sweet.
-K. Pattabhi Jois
The truth of truths is love.
-Philip James Bailey
All truth is most loving
-The Oculatum
When Truth happens between two people,
there is a noticeable exchange of energy.
-Jacquelyn Small
Truth liberates, warms, vivifies,
illuminates and improves.
That is the only truth I want.
-Omraam Mikahel Aivanhov
Truth is like heat or light;
its vibrations are endless,
and are endlessly felt.
-Margaret Deland
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner
I can never feel certain of any truth,
but from a clear perception of its beauty.
-John Keats
Everything that is true is beautiful.
-Eliphas Levi
Love truth
on account of its being the truth.
-Franz Hartmann
To love truth for truth's sake
is the principal part of human perfection in this world,
and the seed of all other virtues.
-John Locke
Truth is the first and fundamental part of virtue.
-Michel de Montaigne
Truth is not virtue,
but lack of vices.
-Leo Tolstoy
There is no consolation
except in truth alone.
-Blaise Pascal
Truth is its own defense.
-Phyllis Bottome
Truth is its own reward.
-Plato
To truth belongs freedom.
-Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
When we really live truth,
we will cease to talk about it.
-Elbert Hubbard
Truth hath a quiet breast.
-William Shakespeare
Truth is the highest thing
that man may keep.
-Geoffrey Chaucer
There is truth in each thing,
and that is the truth of its being,
what it is in its essence.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Truth is living essence.
-James Davis
Truth is idea identical with being.
-Eliphas Levi
Truth is a state of being,
not a set of words.
-Paul Brunton
Truth is a state of being,
not knowledge.
-Rowena Pattee Kryder
Truth is not something outside to be discovered,
it is something inside to be realized.
-Chandro Mohan Jain, "Osho"
Truth is something to be experienced,
a state of being,
which is also knowledge from within.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
What it comes to is that truth
is not a crystal one can put in one's pocket,
but an infinite fluid into which one falls headlong.
-Robert Musil
Truth is not an object
to be conceived of, contained or even comprehended.
Like an ocean, you can swim in it,
but you do not have the capacity to contain it.
To realize it you must completely dissolve yourself in it.
-Steven Sadleir
If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of truth,
you must reduce yourself to a zero.
-Mohandas Gandhi
Truth recedes into the background
when the speaker about Truth is very much in the foreground.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Truth can only be known
only when you are utterly empty,
when there is nothing to distort or project inside you;
when you are so silent that you are only receptive, not projective.
- Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"
Truth is not something given objectively,
but rather a creative achievement.
It is creative discovery,
rather than the reflected knowledge
of an object or of being
Truth...is the creative transfiguration of reality.
-Nikolai Berdyaev
Truth is within ourselves.
There is an inmost center in us all,
where truth abides in fullness.
-Mohandas Gandhi
Truth dwells in the inner man.
-Saint Augustine
You know you have found the Truth
when you have discovered within yourself
that which is Eternal.
-Imre Vallyon
All that is true,
by whomever it has been said,
has its origin in the Spirit.
-Thomas Aquinas
Truth is the awakening of spirit in man,
his communion with spirit.
-Nikolai Berdyaev
Truth is Spiritual,
and is life in the spirit.
-Nikolai Berdyaev
Truth is the will and purpose
of God in man.
-Kahlil Gibran
Truth, the one integral truth, is God,
and to perceive Truth, is to enter divine life.
-Nikolai Berdyaev
God is truth,
the soul is truth,
the real self of man is truth.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
What is the Truth?
It is that there is nothing other than the Self.
-John A. Grimes
Where is truth
but in the soul itself?
-Hypatia
There is no truth outside the mind's purity,
outside the riches of the soul.
-Hugh Prather
Truth is the substance of the soul.
-Edward Counsel
Truth is the divine element in man.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
You can never know the Truth.
Why?
Because you are the Truth.
-Ramesh Balsekar
The truth may be defined
as an eternal state of perfect being.
-Christian Larson
The fabric of truth is not a web of reason
but the luminous garment of the wholeness of being.
-Simons Roof
Truth is Life as its highest,
most evolved state,
the fullest revelation of its essence.
-Nilankantha Sri Ram