All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.”

“But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through whichonly a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn’t even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.”

“People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it’s too long.”

“There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.”

“Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers”

“Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen.”(Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521)”

“No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God.”

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”

“Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.”

“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”

“Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”

“All you know is what you think you know, but that isn’t always what’s real.”