Shared Truth Quotes

When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

No party has a monopoly over what is right.

So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and allow their respective life experiences to be their primary and most valuable source of growth and maturation. It asks for a mutual trust in which those who teach and those who want to learn can become present to each other, not as opponents, but as those who share in the same struggle and search for the same truth.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

I thought if I just told the truth, the human truth, it'd be the truth for everyone.

I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.