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There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
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Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
When you are tempted to judge,
may you be reminded that we are ALL ONE,
and that every thought you think reverberates
across the universe touching everyone and everything.
- from the Simple Truths movie May You Be Blessed
Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths
that give life perspective and meaning.
- Criswell Freeman
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
In all of his bestsellers, the Divine has told the truth,
custom-tailored to the comprehension of the times.
- Ernest Holmes
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price.
May He be so to every one of us.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
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.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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