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Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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As far as I'm concerned, I prefer
silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The inherent vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
He has all of the virtues I dislike,
and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
If the children are untaught,
their ignorance and vices will in future life
cost us much dearer in their consequences
than it would have done in their
correction by a good education.
- Thomas Jefferson
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be an Original, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat, dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
We will bankrupt ourselves in
the vain search for absolute security.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The search after the great men is the dream of youth,
and the most serious occupation of manhood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
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 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
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
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
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
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
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
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We all have a social mask, right?
We put it on, we go out, put our
best foot forward, our best image.
But behind that social mask is a personal truth,
what we really, really believe
about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw
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