William Butler Yeats Quotes

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

I've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn't have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.

There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one that touches me in the heart.

According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life. It is important to find 'the truth for me'.

A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word "intuition": to know, or understand from within - from one's own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence.

Truth is within ourselves.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

What matters is the imaginative truth.

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?