Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

I seek the truth.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

What I want people to consider is that no matter what it is we want to believe, and no matter what story it is we want to jam the world into, the truth is the truth.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.