God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Truth
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow truth.
-J. Krishnamurti
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
-Garrison Keillor
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-George Bernard Shaw
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
If you want to understand the teachings of Buddha, Krishna, Jesus or any great
philosopher, you will have to learn to differentiate and dissect their sayings
in two parts, one, 'eternal truth' and second, 'the truth relevant at that time'.
Without distinguishing the two, you will invariably end up misunderstanding their
sayings.
-Deep Trivedi
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
-Mark Twain
We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
