Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.[John Keats] Quote:Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.[Henry Mencken] Quote:Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.[Joseph Addison] Quote:It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.[GK Chesterton] Quote:No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.[Robert Frost] Quote:In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.[George Dennison Prentice] Quote:The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.[Aristotle] Quote:All great truths begin as blasphemies.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Half a truth is often a great lie.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.[Mark Twain] Quote:The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.[Mark Twain] Quote:If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.[Mark Twain] Quote:Fiction is the truth inside the lie.[Stephen King] Quote:Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.[Bill Cosby] Quote:But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.[Thomas Paine] Quote:I was gonna rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He's no Alexander! I'm Alexander! I'm the best ever. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's never been anyone like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah![Mike Tyson] Quote:A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.[Winston Churchill] Quote:We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.[Otto von Bismarck] Quote:Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.[Josh Billings] Quote:Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.[Winston Churchill] Quote:There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.[George Washington] Quote:A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I'd rather hear an old truth than a new lie.[Chris Bowyer] Quote:The truth is always a trick to those who live among lies.[Author Unknown] Quote:God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, <b[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.[George Orwell] Quote:If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.[Ayn Rand] Quote:The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.[Adolf Hitler] Quote:There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Art is the lie that tells the truth.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.[Matthew Arnold] Quote:Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.[Ansel Adams] Quote:To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.[George MacDonald] Quote:I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.[Harry Truman] Quote:Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.[Edward R. Murrow] Quote:Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. [Solomon Short] Quote:Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? [Dwight D. Eisenhower] Quote:The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. [Edith Sitwell] Quote:The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. [Edith Sitwell] Quote:The truth is more important than the facts. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. [Elizabeth Cady Stanton] Quote:Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. [Elizabeth Cady Stanton] Quote:There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. [Mark Twain] Quote:When in doubt, tell the truth. [Mark Twain] Quote:Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. [Mark Twain] Quote:A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. [Mark Twain] Quote:The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. [Mark Twain] Quote:Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. [Harriet Lerner] Quote:Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. [Andre Gide] Quote:It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. [Jerome K. Jerome] Quote:There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. [Bette Davis] Quote:Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:There's nothing that keeps its youth,<br> So far as I know, but a tree and truth. [Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. [Lillian Hellman] Quote:A lie told often enough becomes the truth. [Lenin] Quote:There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. [Agnes Repplier] Quote:The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. [Aristotle] Quote:All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. [Galileo Galilei] Quote:If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. [Bible] Quote:If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. [Rene Descartes] Quote:All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Definitions of: ruthDefinition: Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.Definition: That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight. |
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