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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

If you can't see God in All, you can't see God at all.

If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.

If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore

If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it means. Then check the theorem; it could be false. Examine the consequences, verify as many particular instances as are needed to convince yourself of the truth. When you have satisfied yourself that the theorem is true, you can start proving it.

If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.

If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.

If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

If you want peace, work for justice.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!

I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability, supported by various concurrent circumstances, conspiring in one point, will have much greater weight with me, than human testimony upon oath, or even upon honour; both of which I have frequently seen considerably warped by private views.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.

I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.