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A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. -- Okakura Kakuzo
I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse. -- Cornel West
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. -- W. Clement Stone
Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth. -- David Whyte
The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding. -- Boyd Rice
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. -- Fernand Leger
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love. -- Ruth St. Denis
Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions. -- Brian Schmidt
Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it. -- Bryant H. McGill
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. -- Nikola Tesla
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness. -- David Whyte
The best fantasy does not offer an answer to our lives, it is an offering that acknowledges enough of the truth to resonate and add to the understanding about the human condition. -- Isobelle Carmody
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. -- Hypatia
Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth. -- Robert B. Laughlin
When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself. -- Luanne Rice
Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many. -- Michael Leunig
Some people erroneously believe that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members are not Christian. We have difficulty understanding why anyone could accept and promote an idea that is so far from the truth. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing. -- Jami Attenberg
Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized. -- Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best. -- Gene Robinson
There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth. -- Paul Twitchell
Truth stands for Taking Real Understanding To Heart. -- Gary Busey
Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect. -- Auliq Ice
Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm. -- John Dryden
We can not begin to administer justice without understanding the concept of truth and mercy. -- Paul Bamikole
All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself. -- Saint Augustine
Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind. -- Stephen Levine
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. -- Sharon Salzberg
Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye. -- John Arbuthnot
Truth ain't be in secret site to be found.It lies within certain levels of understanding and knowledge. -- Toba Beta
Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. -- Robert Breault
There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense. -- Johan Huizinga
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The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding -- Boyd Rice
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth. -- Lester Levenson
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it... -- Rob Bell
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting -- Fernand Leger
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted -- Carl Sandburg
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence. -- Sathya Sai Baba
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot. -- Robert Breault
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. -- David Sedaris
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding. -- Steve Maraboli
There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right. -- Ray Dalio
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love -- Ruth St. Denis
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth. -- Isaac Newton
A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth. -- Huangbo Xiyun
I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president. -- Hillary Clinton
Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind? -- Sir Fulke Greville

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