- No philosophy can fully express the truth. Osho
- The highest truth cannot be put into words. Laozi
- Truth is in things, and not in words. Herman Melville
- The truth which can be spoken is not the true truth. Lao Tzu
- The highest levels of consciousness are wordless. Charles Simic
- The truth [always] lies in things that have no words. Dennis Quaid
- Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth. Neale Donald Walsch
- Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation. Frank Herbert
- … the truth is exactly that which can’t be got into words. Storm Jameson
- Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation. Ashok K. Banker
- Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth. Eugène Ionesco
- The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it. Shankara
- The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. Eckhart Tolle
- When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds. Roger Scruton
- Trying to find the Truth through words and speech is like putting your head in a bowl of glue. Yuan Wu
- Knowing my thoughts are not the Truth helps me to be still, not paying attention to thoughts. Adyashanti
- Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue. Yuanwu Keqin
- The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth. Henry Handel Richardson
- A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words. Huineng
- Jejune and barren speculations may unfold the plicatures of Truth’s garment, but they cannot discover her lovely face. John Smith
- When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain. Kent Nerburn
- Truth is neither in the scripture nor in the words of prophets. It is in your heart, feel it, discover it and expand with it. Amit Ray
- The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief. Frank Herbert
- Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. Anaïs Nin
- Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. Friedrich Nietzsche
- I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Truth is freedom. Truth requires no belief, no effort. It is what is. Of course words cannot express this. But truth is freedom. Tom Thompson
- It is an illusory pursuit to look to concepts and ideas in order to find truth, to find peace, to find that which will liberate us. Adyashanti
- Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. Hermann Hesse
- Those who justify themselves do not convince. To know truth one must get rid of knowledge; nothing is more powerful and creative than emptiness. Lao Tzu
- It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. Haruki Murakami
- Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another. Catherine Marshall
- The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. Adyashanti
- The truth is silent. The truth doesn’t come with words. It’s something that I just know; it’s something that I can feel without words, and it’s called silent knowledge. Miguel Angel Ruiz
- Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon? Huineng
- When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it’s no longer truth–it’s our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn’t mean it’s true for anyone else. Miguel Angel Ruiz
- You should stop pursuing words and letters, and learn to withdraw and reflect on yourself. When you do so, your body and mind will fall away naturally and your original Buddha-nature will appear. Dogen
- But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly ‘tell’ the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, ‘the truth’, which may well exist, but which we cannot define. Declan Donnellan
- Ultimately, awakening awareness is experiential. Alone, offered ‘truth’ is but more words in a world too cluttered with pretentious words. Experiencing ‘truth’ will affect a permanent change in you. G.’s Zaadz
- The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don’t cling to appearances, and you’ll break through all barriers. . . . Bodhidharma
- The more exacting our words, the further from the Truth we stray, which is why poetry is generally more precise about human experience than is prose, and why music can be said to be even more exact. Roger Stephens
- Although all spiritual teachings originate from the same Source, once they become verbalized and written down they are obviously no more than collections of words – and a word is nothing but a signpost. Eckhart Tolle
- I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind. Lao Tzu
- No words, phrases, or sentences are capable of describing or naming the Way, because once it is named, it is a false name and has to be eliminated. Once it is eliminated, only emptiness is left. When the false is abandoned, the true emerges. Henry Chang
- Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful cannot lead to all truths. Douglas Hofstadter
- Dogmas–religious, political, scientific–arise out of erroneous belief that thought can encapsulate reality or truth. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of “I know.” Eckhart Tolle
- Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I need is already contained within me and is completely aceessible if I allow myself to open up to what I sense is true for me…and the same is true for you. Anita Moorjani
- I have a thousand brilliant lies for the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies for the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known from words; if you think that the Sun and the Ocean can an pass through that tiny opening called the mouth, someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly laughing now! Hafez
- The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached, but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of who you are is yours already. It is already present. Gangaji
- Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing. In fact, you place so little value on experience that when what your experience of God differs from what you’ve heard of God, you automatically discard the experience and own the words, when it should be just the other way around. Neale Donald Walsch
- Zen training is designed to teach that truth cannot be described verbally, but can exist only in silence. Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno
- No thought or concept can encapsulate absolute truth. They can only point to it. Absolute truth is a state of being in which an absolute knowing arises. It is a state when all words and concepts fall away. It is something you need to experience for yourself. Relatives truths do exist. A relative truth is that which points to absolute truth. However, relative truth is subjective. A truth that acts as a good pointer for one will not work for another. Anthony Lambert
