There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.