The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd.
In the past, U2 was trying to duck that.
Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
- Thomas Jefferson
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
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
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
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
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel
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
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
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
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 words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
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
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
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
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
Truth is always in harmony with herself,
and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice
that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Truth has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now - always.
- Albert Schweitzer
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
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 certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word in reality.
That is why right, temporarily defeated,
is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
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
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
All the religions of the world,
while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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