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Famous Quotes about truth“ Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ” “ Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. ” “ It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. ” “ Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society. Personality is social convenience. Society cannot tolerate individuality, because individuality will not follow like a sheep. Individuality has the quality of the lion; the lion moves alone. The sheep are always in the crowd, hoping that being in the crowd will feel cozy. Being in the crowd one feels more protected, secure. If somebody attacks, there is every possibility in a crowd to save yourself. But alone? - only the lions move alone. And every one of you is born a lion, but the society goes on conditioning you, programming your mind as a sheep. It gives you a personality, a cozy personality, nice, very convenient, very obedient. Society wants slaves, not people who are absolutely dedicated to freedom. Society wants slaves because all the vested interests want obedience. ” “ Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ” “ A man is not good or bad for one action. ” “ To be a leader means to be able to move masses. ” “ In a cinema hall, you look at the screen, you never look at the back - the projector is at the back. The film is not there really on the screen; it is just a projection of shadow and light. The film exists just at the back, but you never look at that. And the projector is there. Your mind is at the back of the whole thing, and the mind is the projector. But you always look at the other, because the other is the screen. When you are in love the person seems beautiful, no comparison. When you hate, the same person seems the ugliest, and you never become aware of how the same person can be the ugliest and the same person can be the most beautiful.... So the only way to reach to truth is to learn how to be immediate in your vision, how to drop the help of the mind. This agency of the mind is the problem, because mind can create only dreams.... Through your excitement the dream starts looking like reality. If you are too excited then you are intoxicated, then you are not in your senses. Then whatsoever you see is just your projection. And there are as many worlds as there are minds, because every mind lives in his own world. ” “ If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. ” “ Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect ” “ I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm. ” “ A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. ” “ Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. ” “ Without the way , there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living. ” “ People do not lack strength; they lack will. ” “ Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. ” “ All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ” “ If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find. Truth is functioning through you. When you open your eyes, it is truth opening his eyes. When you close your eyes, it is truth who is closing its eyes. This is a tremendous meditation. If you can simply understand the device, you dont have to do anything; whatever you are doing is being done by truth. You are walking, it is truth; you are sleeping, it is truth resting; you are speaking, it is truth speaking; you are silent, it is truth that is silent. This is one of the most simple meditation techniques. Slowly, slowly everything settles by this simple formula, and then there is no need for the technique. When you are cured, you throw away the meditation, you throw away the medicine. Then you live as truth - alive, radiant, contented, blissful, a song unto yourself. Your whole life becomes a prayer without any words, or better to say a prayerfulness, a grace, a beauty which does not belong to our mundane world, a ray of light coming from the beyond into the darkness of our world. ” “ The richest minds need not large libraries. ” “ Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.” ” “ Though you youngsters of the new generation dwell in towns infested with deceitful fate, the link of truth still remains. ” “ Realists do not fear the results of their study. ” “ I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. It is the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ” “ All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. ” “ The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. ” “ Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. ” “ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ” “ Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ” “ Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. ” “ I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. ” “ Truth can spread, just like love, and those souls who reach the more advanced stage along spiritual path can act as pathfinders or guides for others. They are living examples of God manifesting Himself in man at the highest levels, a goal which everyone should seek. That is why I tell you to keep good company, because such people can help you just by their presence and example. ” “ Until very recently there were three powerful dictatorships in Europe: Spain, Portugal and Greece. The future for these countries seemed totally blocked, and yet they have been reborn. ” “ Honesty results from a pure heart and pure thought. It is also related to the desireless state because in that state, there is no need to distort the truth in order to achieve or obtain anything. ” “ Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth. ” “ A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. ” “ There is no need to prove the truth. Truth is such a sun that it cannot remain hidden. No matter how many walls come in front of it, the light of the truth cannot remain hidden. ” “ It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. ” “ What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. ” “ A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. ” “ The 'truth' is only a way of speaking; there is not something labeled 'Truth,' that one day you will find and open the box and see the contents and say, 'Great! I have found the truth.' There is no such box. Your existence is the truth, and when you are silent you are in truth. And if the silence is absolute then you are the ultimate truth. But don't think of the truth as an object –it is not an object. It is not there, it is here. ” “ A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. ” “ Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it. ” “ When the energy of our consciousness is out of our control - the mind is agitated. We are being emotional. The solution is to detach from the inner storms, stand back and observe the hurricane pass. Detached observation withdraws the energy which your emotions require to sustain themselves. When you watch your own anger, it dies. If you don't detach from it, and observe it ...it will be your master. ” “ In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds. ” “ What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you. ” “ This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. ” “ The respect you earn is no lesser or greater than your own self-respect. Therefore, respect yourself and the world will respect you. ” “ Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. ” “ I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself. ” “ There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. ” “ I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ” “ Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. ” “ Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ” “ When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. ” “ What is published in the Arab world is not always subjected to serious standards of criticism. Vast quantities of stuff get into print. There is a confusion which reflects a general situation. ” “ It is all mind or maya (the world illusion). ” “ You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective. ” “ Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. ” “ The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. ” “ The mind forgets but the heart always remembers. ” “ All things are difficult before they are easy. ” “ All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit. ” “ When you know the truth, you cannot blame others for the misfortunes of the moment; those misfortunes are of your own creation. What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. But even that outline can change, and will change, depending on your own thoughts and actions as each new day dawns and then dies away again. ” “ Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; hate less, love more and all good things are yours. ” “ Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance. ” “ An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. ” “ All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. ” “ Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. ” “ An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so. ” “ Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but has no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not ” “ In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change. ” “ Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ” |
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