#ruth

In the end, we return to the question, just how much do you love truth? Do you really love truth or are you just curious? Do you love it enough to rebuild your understanding to conform to a reality that doesn’t fit your current beliefs, and doesn’t feel 120% happy? Do you love truth enough to continue seeking even when it hurts, when it reveals aspects of yourself (or human society, or the universe) that are shocking, complex and disturbing, or humbling, glorious and amazing – or even, when truth is far beyond human mind itself? Just how much do we love truth? It’s a good question to ask ourselves, I think. ↗

— Scott Mandelker

#love

We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#power #stand #standing-your-ground #steady #truth-fierce

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#religion #theology #truth #love

I thought about that while he made his next calls, while I kept on with the newsletters. I thought about it during Sunday service at Word of Life, and during study hours in my room, with the Viking Erin and her squeaky pink highlighter. What it meant to really believe in something—for real. Belief. The big dictionary in the Promise library said it meant something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held conviction or opinion. But even that definition, as short and simple as it was, confused me. True or real: Those were definite words; opinion and conviction just weren't—opinions wavered and changed and fluctuated with the person, the situation. And most troubling of all was the word accepts. Something one accepts. I was much better at excepting everything than accepting anything, at least anything for certain, for definite. That much I knew. That much I believed. ↗

— Emily M. Danforth

#truth #change

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#truth #change

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#defense #forgiveness #love #truth #anger

Ish #177 "You never know what you don't know, until you finally know it. ↗

— Regina Griffin

#inspirig #motivation #motivational-quotes #truth-inspirational #inspirational

To me, the word wisdom means ancient knowledge. It’s the kind of knowledge you not only see but feel when you look into the eyes of an elephant or stop for a moment to marvel at the deep wrinkles on its skin, both of which I believe contain the truths learned from each intentional step their feet and those of their ancestors have placed upon the earth. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#earth #elephant #eyes #feet #inspiration

In this world of rights, the one who dares to be wrong, discovers the truth. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#self-help #truth #inspirational

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

#change #truth #change