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the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

The truth about myself? I'm obstinate, self-assured, ambitious and sloppy. I think I lead a quite normal life, certainly with five hours of trainig per day. Many people would probably be surprised if they met me.

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.

The truth is dark under your eyelids.

The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.

The truth is overrated.

The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated.

The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.