"Now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

-- Umberto Eco

"The simple truth is nothing external will make you happy."

-- Stephen M. Pollan

"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."

-- Bob Marley

"Disappearance of the sense of self is the real truth."

--Ramana Maharshi

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"You shall know the truth and it shall make you odd."

-- Flannery O'Connor

"Anything more than the truth would be too much."

-- Robert Frost

"Sexuality is a biological doorway into truth."

-- Emmanuel

"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said, has its origin in the spirit."

-- Thomas Aquinas

"The truth is here right now; things are as they are and nothing need be changed."

-- Jack Kornfield

"If you can actually revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased -- because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies."

-- R.D. Laing

"The public will believe anything so long as it is not founded on truth."

-- Edith Sitwell

"Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new."

-- Pema Chodron

"If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?"

--Dogen

"The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men."

-- A.W. Hare

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life that you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

-- Rene Descartes

"If one can actually revert to the truth, then a great deal of suffering can be erased -- because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies."

-- R.D. Laing

"To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it."

-- Andre Gide

"Truth is an icy mountain that must be climbed anew everyday."

-- John Fowles