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Barry Long on Truth

1926–2003 Australia

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No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognized by the person ready to discover it.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barry Long (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.