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Welcome to these Handsome Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
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
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
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
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
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
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
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
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
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
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
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is the truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
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
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
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