Quotes on Truth

Without courage there cannot be Truth, and without Truth there can be no virtue.
 -  Sir Walter Scott

He who sees that the Lord of all is ever the same in all that is, immortal in the field of mortality - he sees the Truth. And when a man sees that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not himself by hurting others: Then he goes indeed to the highest Path.
 -  The Bhagavid Gita, Chapter 13, Verses 27, 28

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
 -  Socrates

For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the Truth.
Everyone who belongs to the Truth listens to my voice.
 -  Jesus, Gospel of John 18:37

Now there's spiritual warfare and flesh and blood breaking down.
Ya either got faith or ya got unbelief and there ain't no neutral ground.
The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived when the Truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe?
 -  Bob Dylan

A hierarchical society can only be based on poverty and ignorance.
 -  George Orwell

Not for idle sport did We create the heavens and the earth and all that is in between!
If it had been Our wish to take just a pastime, We should surely have taken it from the things nearest to Us, if We would do such a thing!
Nay, We hurl the Truth against all falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold, Falsehood doth perish!
Ah! Woe be to you for the false things ye ascribe to Us.
 -  God, The Holy Quran, Sura 21:16

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
 -  H.L. Mencken

And you shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free.
 -  Jesus, Gospel of John 8:32

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
 -  Blaise Pascal

Look around, believe in what you see.
The kingdom is at hand. The promised land is at your feet.
We can and will become what we aspire to be,
If heaven’s here on earth,
If we have faith in human kind and respect for what is earthly,
And an unfaltering belief that Truth is divinity.
 -  Tracy Chapman

But whoever lives the Truth comes to the Light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.
 -  Jesus, Gospel of John 3:21

There is no religion higher than Truth.
 -  Madame Blavatsky

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
 -  Bertrand Russell

Leave alone those who take their religion to be mere play and amusement,
and are deceived by the life of this world.
But proclaim to them this Truth:
That every soul delivers itself to ruin by its own acts.
 -  Muhammad, The Holy Quran, Sura 6:70

Under the influence or control of ignorance, there is no possibility of a permanent state of happiness. Some kind of trouble, some kind of problem, always arises. So long as we remain under the power of ignorance, that is, our fundamental misapprehension or confusion about the nature of things, then sufferings come one after another, like ripples on water.
 -  His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
 -  Albert Schweitzer

Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide;
In the strife of Truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight;
And the choice goes by forever, ‘twixt that darkness and that Light.
 -  James Russell Lowell

Day and night meditate on the Mystery of Existence concerning the knowledge of the Secret of Truth.... Then you will gain Knowledge of His inheritance and walk in Righteousness.
 -  Dead Sea Scrolls