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The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Related topics: Wisdom

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw PHOTO

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu PHOTO

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


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


The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

 

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

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- 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

In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein

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

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha

I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein

Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard

Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides

There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou

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

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

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein

Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow

Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is the truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho

About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

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

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

Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide

An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- 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

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha

The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz

Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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

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

Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson


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