Essential Truths Quotes

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

The greatest things in life are not things.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

I never wanted to be current in the sense that I follow the news, I follow the historical moment of the day. It was always, for me, to go back to the fundamentals.

Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

Sometimes we overcomplicate living the gospel.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.

My brother, this "religiosity" is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam has, deeply imbedded in those rituals are principles of truth. And sometimes we get lost in the religiosity; we get lost in the "symbol," but we miss the substance of the truth that is buried in the ritual!

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.