Truth Quotes - Page 35

• Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Tests, Duration, Spirituality

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• I am the only real truth I know.

  Jean Rhys

  Real, Acceptance, Awareness

  Jean Rhys, Isak Dinesen (1978). “Women Fiction 2”

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• Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Integrity, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Honesty, Character, Men

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

  Alfred Nobel

  Spiritual, Veils, Cynicism

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• You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

  Edgar Guest

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Deeds

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspirational, Trust, Betrayal

  "Apostolic Exhortation, the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World: Familiaris Consortio".

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• Frankness invites frankness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Honesty, Betrayal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.215

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• When all else fails, tell the truth.

  Donald T. Regan

  Trust, Honesty, Betrayal

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• Lying can never save us from another lie.

  Vaclav Havel

  Trust, Honesty, Betrayal

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• In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, Needs, Fame

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.

  David Hawkins

  Knowing, Identity, Truth Is

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• Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.

  Octavio Paz

  Believe, Thinking, Self

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• Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

  Confucius

  Human Nature, Sincerity, Virtue

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• I think everyone's hungry for the truth

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Hungry

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• Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.

  Alvan Macauley

  Character, Giving, Forever

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• If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Life, Motivational, Errors

  Hans Reichenbach (1973). “The Rise of Scientific Philosophy”, p.326, Univ of California Press

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• Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Hammers, Use

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• I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

  Babe Paley

  Trust Issues, Matter, Importance

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• If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

  Horace Mann

  Greatness, Men, Forget

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• Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth"... The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.

  Esther Hicks

  Lost Love, Reflection, Law Of Attraction

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

  Ralph Wiley

  Color, Justice, Diversity

  Ralph Wiley (1993). “What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard”, Ballantine Books

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• That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

  Ben Jonson

  Disappointment, Envy, Age

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• The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Acceptance, Science, Opinion

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