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An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth,
and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
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
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
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 words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
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
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
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
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
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
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
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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 false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
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
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
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
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,
you have understood the great truth.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
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
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
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
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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