An Iota Of Truth Quotes

The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable. Of course an artist can lose his way, but even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him.

My regard for jurisprudence increased, I discovered in it religion. I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

There was no possibility of redemption in his tale. There wasn’t an iota of hope in it. But the truth is, life goes on and stories have to end, and yet not end—which is also one of the features of any great story.

The novel had a framework made by thinking. The thought was that to divide off and compartmentalize living was dangerous and led to nothing but trouble. Old, young; black, white; men, women; capitalism, socialism; these dichotomies undo us, force us into unreal categorisation, make us look for what separates us rather than what we have in common. That was the thought, which made the shape or pattern of 'The Golden Notebook'. But the emotions were stronger than the thought. This is why I have always seen TGN as a failure: a failure in my terms, of what I had meant. For has this book changed by an iota our tendency to think like computers set to sort everything - people, ideas, history - into boxes? No, it has not. Yet why should I have such a hubristic thought? But I was in the grip of discovery, of revelation. I had only just seen this Truth: I was watching my own mind working like a sorting machine, and I was appalled.

Affirmations are positive statements and they need to be spoken with absolute, unadulterated faith. If you only speak with your mouth, without an iota of feeling in your heart and belief in your mind, then you’re going the wrong way! You need to feel the vibrancy, the truth, and the positivity of these statements. You need to write them on your mind-slate, create an indelible influence, and engrave them in your consciousness. You can only do that by following the Three Golden Rules of Affirmations – Repetition, Belief, and Positive Expectation. Remember, by making affirmations, you are consciously programming your mind to think in a certain way, so that hopeful and happy thinking becomes a part of your being. Affirmations are a way to train the mind; and training happens when you practice, practice, practice! Training requires conscious effort, discipline, belief, and consistency. That is exactly how you need to practice your affirmations.

Perhaps we are all living inside a giant computer simulation, Matrix-style. That would contradict all our national, religious and ideological stories. But our mental experiences would still be real. If it turns out that human history is an elaborate simulation run on a super-computer by rat scientists from the planet Zircon, that would be rather embarrassing for Karl Marx and the Islamic State. But these rat scientists would still have to answer for the Armenian genocide and for Auschwitz. How did they get that one past the Zircon University’s ethics committee? Even if the gas chambers were just electric signals in silicon chips, the experiences of pain, fear and despair were not one iota less excruciating for that. Pain is pain, fear is fear, and love is love – even in the matrix. It doesn’t matter if the fear you feel is inspired by a collection of atoms in the outside world or by electrical signals manipulated by a computer. The fear is still real. So if you want to explore the reality of your mind, you can do that inside the matrix as well as outside it.

The oracle asked , what's a misfortune ? You might have all the fair intentions invested into someone but all you get is harsh words , words sharper that thorns on roses , words which claim to define you into something which you were not , words which pierce you. But is it because they are harsh or is to you who makes it harsh because you cared for something deeply and you know that there's not an iota of truth in those words by them molding you . They say sometimes people pretend that you are a bad person , so they don't feel guilty of things they did to you . But what can you do , fight those words , fight them or fight yourself or fight your own choices or fight your misfortune as a paradox . The boy replied : Not knowing any of the above is a misfortune . But then he knew , misfortunes is what all he has ,and that is his misfortune . It's all a labyrinth , albeit a paradoxical one . The boy asked now , does they balance the misfortunes ? The oracle : No , they don't ,that's why it's your's and your's only .....

Christ said, not a single iota of the truth He gave was to be changed, then by what right do we sit in judgment on Divinity and say: This much of Your truth we will accept, because it pleases us, and this much we will reject? We are not the creators of divine truth; we are only the trustees and the guardians. God’s truths are not optional any more than the right to happiness is optional; they are not debatable any more than the multiplication table is debatable. Any sect which starts with the assumption that it has rights over God’s truth proves that it is man-made, and a religion that is man-made can be man-unmade. But a Church which is God-made cannot be man-unmade.

I beg you, therefore, to take with you, when you go forth to assume the obligations of American citizenship, as one of the best gifts of your alma mater, a strong and abiding faith in the value and potency of a good conscience and a pure heart. Never yield one iota to those who teach that these are weak and childish things, not needed in the struggle of manhood with the stern realities of life. Interest yourselves in public affairs as a duty of citizenship; but do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase politics by scoffing at sentiment and principle, and whose political activity consists in attempts to gain popular support by cunning devices and shrewd manipulation. You will find plenty of these who will smile at your profession of faith and tell you that truth and virtue and honesty and goodness were well enough in the old days when Washington lived, but are not suited to the present size and development of our country and the progress we have made in the art of political management. Be steadfast. The strong and sturdy oak still needs the support of its native earth, and, as it grows in size and spreading branches, its roots must strike deeper into the soil which warmed and fed its first tender sprout. You will be told that the people no longer have any desire for the things you profess. Be not deceived. The people are not dead but sleeping. They will awaken in good time and scourge the moneychangers from their sacred temple.32

If you are not drawing fire from both Pharisees and Sadducees, you are probably saying something other than what Jesus said. And if your message is not drawing both tax collectors (Roman collaborators) and zealots (anti-Roman insurrectionists) to repentance, you are probably speaking with a different voice than does he. Jesus wasn’t inconsistent. He saw the Roman Empire, despite all its pretensions to preeminence both in its own mind and in the mind of its opponents, as a temporary obstacle, not the defining point of his agenda. We stand and we speak, with reconciliation in view. We see, therefore, even our most passionate critic not as an argument to be vaporized but as a neighbor to be evangelized. This doesn’t mean that we back down one iota from the truth. But we proclaim the whole gospel of truth and grace, never backing down from either. That means taking seriously the arguments of our opponents, not merely caricatures of those arguments.

The world will be a more boring and polite place without him, at least for me and those who knew him, or followed his writing. A few iotas less of truth will be spoken to power. He was a lion and a screech-owl, a hard charger, and a rough glass of cheap red wine.

aspirations. Did he send the same resume to each? Absolutely not. His resume never deviated one iota from the truth of his background.

Truth is singular. To me, there is only one truth, the whole truth, the ultimate truth where each iota, every fiber was made up of truth. Even a shred of something else other than the truth will make it stop from being what it was. Dabble a bit of a black, brush it over white: it is no more the same, it becomes grey. Like a drop of poison poured into milk. Like a blotch of black on an evening sky. There is nothing called white lies, no edible poison.

Chanakya says that a person, who demands his rights, is greedy. A person, who places importance on beauty and make-up, is lustful. Foolish people by nature are not soft-spoken. Contrarily, persons who are frank and truthful do not have even an iota of cunning, deceit and craftiness.

The issue most impacted by the harsh change, at least for the people around me, was the most intimate, the sexual: who may sleep with whom and who may not, who can touch whom and who cannot, what may one do with the other, if anything, and what exactly are humans supposed to do with their sexual organs, if anything. That’s on the left side of politics, where the Puritans are more commonly known as Progressives. On the right side of politics, an equally senseless phenomenon soon came into view. Many of the anti-vaxxers, for example, were to be found on the right side of American politics, and they claimed that more people were dying from taking COVID vaccines than from the coronavirus itself. If people who followed them ended up in the cemetery, so be it; they didn’t care. It was bizarre, totally ridiculous, dangerous, and poisonous. They had not one iota of sense or science to prove what they were saying, but they were viewed as righteous, truth tellers, and world savers. They lived in a bubble of lies, and no force in the world could stop them.