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There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
by Niels Bohr

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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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

Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma

Truths and roses have thorns about them.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow

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

Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths
that give life perspective and meaning.
- Criswell Freeman

Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

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]

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson

If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans

Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

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