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Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

When people show you who they are ... believe them!

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

When we attempt to isolate another we only isolate ourselves. We are all God's children and there are no favorites. God is revealed to all who seek; God speaks to all who will listen. Be still and know God.

When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us.

When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.

When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined to tell the truth, represents, at best, a guess. There have been times in my life when I felt incredibly happy. Life was full. I seemed productive. Then I thought,"Am I really happy or am I merely masking a deep depression with frantic activity?" If I don't know such basic things about myself, who does?

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.

Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?

Who lies for you will lie against you.

Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, and the nations no longer march forward towards the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; but the denial stays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.