Quotes Tagged "truth"

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

sometimes the quiet ones are yelling on the inside

What my parents kept failing to understand was how happy I was when I was alone with my books. There was no pressure to perform or be cute, and books never disappoint-- unless, of course, you've chosen a bad one. But then, you can always put it down and pick up another one without any repercussions.

The Dimwit's Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that this subject can be a dangerous adventure and should be undertaken with extreme caution. After all, human males have been trying to understand their females for generations, and most of the time they come away from these encounters looking like someone stuck their tails into an electric socket.

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

Every time you mistreat someone, you reveal the part of you that lacks love and needs to heal.

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth. Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

In the course of my intellectual life I experienced very acutely the problem of whether it isn't actually presumptuous to say that we can know the truth - in the face of all our limitations. I also asked myself to what extent it might not be better to suppress this category. In pursuing this question, however, I was able to observe and also to grasp that relinquishing truth doesn't solve anything but, on the contrary, leads to the tyranny of caprice. In that case, the only thing that can remain is really what we decide on and can replace at will. Man is degraded if he can't know truth, if everything, in the final analysis, is just the product of an individual or collective decision. In this way it became clear to me how important it is that we don't lose the concept of truth, in spite of the menaces and perils that it doubtless carries with it. It has to remain as a central category. As a demand on us that doesn't give us rights but requires, on the contrary, our humility and our obedience and can lead us to the common path.

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.