Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"Truth needs no defense; it defends itself through time."
Ibn Arabi
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"Imagination leads to error; reason and intuitive science lead to truth."
Spinoza
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"Truth needs no witness to verify its validity; it carries its evidence within itself."
Spinoza
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"It is not possible to establish truth if the heart is not at peace."
Teresa of Avila
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"The soul that does not venture out and test itself knows nothing of truth."
Teresa of Avila
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"Determined to love what is true, whatever the consequences."
Teresa of Avila
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"The pursuit of truth requires the humility to admit what we do not know."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Truth may be hidden, delayed, or disguised, but never ultimately defeated."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"The divine lights are obscured by the veils of names."
Ibn Arabi
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"Reality is beyond all dualistic conceptions."
Ibn Arabi
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"Truth wears a thousand faces, yet remains one."
Ibn Arabi
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"Seek the truth within the depths of your being."
Ibn Arabi
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"The voice of the heart is the voice of truth."
Ibn Arabi
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"The seeker of truth becomes one with truth."
Ibn Arabi
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"Truth is veiled in the garments of existence."
Ibn Arabi
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"The greatest suffering is to live in the state of illusion."
John of the Cross
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"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The truth has infinite interpretations."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"You are not separate from the whole. You are the whole, disguised as an individual."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The only sickness you cannot heal is a sickness you deny."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The mind that is restless cannot reach the depths of truth."
Teresa of Avila
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"The truth is often uncomfortable because it demands change."
Teresa of Avila
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"He who conceives himself and his actions as free is deceived."
Spinoza
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"Reason teaches us that nothing can be good if it diminishes our power of thinking."
Spinoza
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"To be in the grip of imagination is to be in the grip of illusion."
Spinoza
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"Truth cannot be contained in words; it can only be experienced."
Ibn Arabi
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"The journey toward truth requires the death of illusion."
Ibn Arabi
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"In the space between thoughts, truth dwells."
Ibn Arabi
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"The test of truth is not in words, but in lived experience."
Ibn Arabi
"The eye is the lamp of the body."
Meister Eckhart