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May you find great value in these Truths quotes and sayings.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Truths and roses have thorns about them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths
that give life perspective and meaning.
- Criswell Freeman
The personal life deeply lived
always expands into truths beyond itself.
- Anais Nin
All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
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
Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions,
but laws and institutions must go hand in hand
with the progress of the human mind.
As that becomes more developed, more enlightened,
as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered
and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances,
institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
- Thomas Jefferson [inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial]
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
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
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
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 false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
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
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
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
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
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
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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