Truth

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

- Abraham H. Maslow

Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

- John Milton

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest" ( ? )

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

- Plato

Would Truth dispense, we could be content, with Plato, that knowledge were but Remembrance; that Intellectuall acquisition were but Reminiscentiall evocation, and new impressions but the colourishing of old stamps which stood pale in the soul before. For, what is worse, knowledge is made by oblivion; and to purchase a clear and warrantable body of Truth, we must forget and part with much wee know. Our tender Enquiries taking up Learning at large, and together with true and assured notions, receiving many wherein our renewing judgements doe finde no satisfaction; and therefore in this Encyclopaedie and round of knowledge, like the great and exemplary wheeles of heaven, wee must observe two Circles: that while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swindge and rapt of the one, wee may maintaine a naturall and proper course, in the slow and sober wheele of the other. And this wee shall more readily performe, if we timely survey our knowledge; impartially singling out those encroachments, which junior compliance and popular credulity hath admitted.

- Sir Thomas Browne, "Pseudodoxia Epidemica" ( ? )

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Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS BEST.

- Frank Zappa, In Music

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

- Nikolai Berdyaev, In Nature

Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.

- Wayne Kramer, In Humanity

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

- Madeleine L'Engle, In Education

Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The sigularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

- Robert Nesta Marley, In Music/Bob Marley

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