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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley
I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
- Henry David Thoreau
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
I want to know all Gods thoughts;
all the rest are just details.
- Albert Einstein
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police
because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
- Ilie Nastase
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
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 opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
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 incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- 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
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
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 presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
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
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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 is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
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