Top 1200 Profound Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.

The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself.

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.

Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

If I'm talking about girls and stuff, it's usually the truth. So now, you know, if you hear my songs, you are gonna appreciate it differently because usually, it's the truth.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Be still and know yourself as the Truth you have been searching for. Be still and let the inherent joy of that Truth capture your drama and destroy it in the bliss of consummation. Be still and let your life be lived by the purpose you were made for. Be still and receive the inherent truth of your heart.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot - this side and not the other side. In cinema, there's one truth - not 'the truth.' It's only 'my point of view.' Cinema is powerful because of that.

You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word...Only the truth will set us free.

I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.

Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.

That which takes us nearer to the Almighty (Sat) is truth. Truth needs no external support to sustain or promote itself.

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.