Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
Let me give you a definition of ethics:
It is good to maintain and further life
it is bad to damage and destroy life.
- Albert Schweitzer
I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Whenever you choose to carry resentment and hatred,
you are shouldering an immense burden that damages
your happiness, and often your health.
Does it matter that your resentment and hatred are "justified?"
Only you suffer - not the person you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
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
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Knowledge of the Truth makes us free
by aligning us with that which was never bound.
- Ernest Holmes
Ignorance is preferable to error,
and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing
than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you seek truth, you will not seek
victory by dishonorable means,
and if you find truth, you will become invincible.
- Epictetus
A nation that is afraid to let its people
judge the truth and falsehood in an open market
is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- John F. Kennedy
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
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
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
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
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
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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