I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.
Raoul WallenbergOf all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.
Seth Grahame-SmithTags: truth
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar WildeTags: life truth soul denial spiritual-development
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Kahlil GibranTags: truth love beauty rebellion
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement StoneTags: truth
What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
Michael ConnellyTags: truth reality observation hearing
He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.
John MiltonTags: truth religion areopagitica john-mitlon
I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to cut a wide swath in the world, whose crimes along the way might be written off to extravagance and love and art, and could even almost believe some of it myself on certain days after the sun went down if I’d had a snort or two and was in Los Angeles and it was February and I was twenty-four, but I find a truer account in the Herald-Star, where it says: “Mr. Gary Keillor visited at the home of Al and Florence Crandall on Monday and after lunch returned to St. Paul, where he is currently employed in the radio show business… Lunch was fried chicken with gravy and creamed peas”.
Garrison KeillorTags: humor truth storytelling
If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
Richard WrightThe most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
Pema ChödrönTags: truth pain courage self-awareness mindfulness self-assessment
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