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Politeness is organized indifference.
- Paul Valery
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Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor,
it covers the natural want of it,
and ends by rendering habitual a substitute
nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- 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
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
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
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
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
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
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
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
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
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
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
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
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
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 wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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 should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears,
when benevolence is lost right conduct appears,
when right conduct is lost, expedience appears.
Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth;
it is the beginning of disorder.
- Lao Tzu
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
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