Truth is the capacity to visualise things as they are in themselves, and untruth is that which obstructs this vision.

~ Swami Krishnananda

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

~ Paul Brunton

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Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

~ Swami Vivekananda

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

~ Swami Vivekananda

Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

~ Teilhard de Chardin

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

~ Alan Watts

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world."

~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The main thing is that you stop telling lies to yourself. The one who lies to himself and believes his own lies comes to a point where he can distinguish no truth either within himself or around him, and thus enters into a state of disrespect towards himself and others. Respecting no one, he loves no one, and to amuse and divert himself in the absence of love he gives himself up to his passions and to vulgar delights and becomes a complete animal in his vices, and all of it from perpetual lying to other people and himself.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Discard every self-seeking motive
as soon as it is seen and you need
not search for truth; truth will find
you.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

Belief, any belief, is based on the sense of
insecurity. Only when all belief is given
up are you free to know yourself. In self-
discovery what you find is the Truth - that
Truth which is total, self-evident and
which needs no outside support or justi-
fication.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

~ Bede Griffiths

Whatever Jesus might have taught the crowds, his call to his own close disciples was always to practice dying - dying to one's life, dying to personal human relationships, dying to the whole world, dying to anything that did not pertain directly to the will of God. This was his baptism of spirit and fire. Not only for the crowds, but even for most of his disciples, his teaching was hard to bear. As has been said earlier, one needs to be prepared not only to understand the truth but also in order to withstand it.

~ Ravi Ravindra

"...this discovery of yours [writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing, they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality." [Thamus speaking to Thoth in Phaedrus]

~ Plato

The mark of wisdom
is to discern the truth
from whatever source
it is heard.

~ Thiruvallavar

If you tell the truth,
you don't have to
remember anything.

~ Mark Twain

"Of all the communities available to us
there is not one I would want to devote
myself to, except for the society of the
true searchers, which has very few
living members at any time."
- Albert Einstein

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

~ Francis Bacon

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

~ Plato

"Even If I am a minority of one,
truth is still the truth"
- Mahatma Gandhi