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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
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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
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
When you are tempted to judge,
may you be reminded that we are ALL ONE,
and that every thought you think reverberates
across the universe touching everyone and everything.
- from the Simple Truths movie May You Be Blessed
Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths
that give life perspective and meaning.
- Criswell Freeman
The personal life deeply lived
always expands into truths beyond itself.
- Anais Nin
All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions,
but laws and institutions must go hand in hand
with the progress of the human mind.
As that becomes more developed, more enlightened,
as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered
and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances,
institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
- Thomas Jefferson [inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial]
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
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