Rumi who is one of the greatest Persian poets said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything making everything vulgar and every truth false.
Truth after all wears a different face to everybody and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood for the good or evil side.
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Every legend moreover contains its residuum of truth and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
When you're caught up in the storm or you know just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.
The truth is that life is delicious horrible charming frightful sweet bitter and that is everything.
Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Above all I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling I have found is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Everyone who knows me will know the truth which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Truth like light blinds. Falsehood on the contrary is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both before we commit ourselves to either.
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.