It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Samuel Ichiye HayakawaOne universe made up all that is, and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
Marcus AureliusA lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles SpurgeonThe words of truth are simple.
AeschylusIf you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark TwainTeach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
BuddhaConquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.
BuddhaThe only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.
Stephen KendrickNever tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark TwainA lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark TwainHalf a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin FranklinThe only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
BuddhaI do not care to know your various theories about God. What is the use of discussing all the subtle doctrines about the soul? Do good and be good. And this will take you to freedom and to whatever truth there is....
BuddhaIf you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
George Bernard ShawThe truth is lived, not taught.
Herman HesseI read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason CooleyFacts are many but the truth is one.
Rabindranath TagoreThe pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar WildeIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
Jane AustenLove is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath TagoreThe deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived not taught.
Herman HesseThe truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
C. S. LewisPiety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
AristotleThis above all, to thine own self be true.
William ShakespeareI know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad AliThe ocean has only one taste, the taste of salt. Truth has only one taste, the taste of freedom.
BuddhaWhat draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C. S. LewisIf it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus AureliusThe false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
Rabindranath TagoreThe object of the superior man is truth.
ConfuciusI am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.
John KeatsEvery truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner and it is for you to find the other three.
ConfuciusAn error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma GandhiA writer's job is to tell the truth.
Andy RooneyI have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma GandhiThose who know the truth are not equal to those who love it.
ConfuciusTruth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Mark TwainBeauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath TagoreFor truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Lord ByronOld age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
ConfuciusI heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it because it is very true.
Audrey HepburnWe should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl JungPerhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James MadisonIt is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfThere's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya AngelouIt's much easier for me to make major life multi-million dollar decisions than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
Oprah WinfreyHumility is truth.
Desiderius ErasmusYou can find the footprints of God wherever there is beauty, virtue, humility, justice, truth, love and peace.
Sai BabaExaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil GibranAll truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich NietzscheDoubt indulged and cherished is in danger of becoming denial, but if honest and bent on thorough investigation it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Ambrose BierceIf you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert EinsteinFor Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going, unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya AngelouGood ideas, good conduct and adherence to Truth should result from our education. Only those who acquire these qualities can be called truly educated.
Sai BabaReason is the natural order of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. LewisThere are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth... not going all the way and not starting.
BuddhaA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeCertainly it is a heaven upon earth to have a man's mind to move in charity, rest in providence and turn upon the poles of truth.
Francis BaconIt is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James MadisonAnd we should consider every day lost, on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false, which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich NietzscheThe true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
AristotleIt's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark TwainEverything 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 SchweitzerDefending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone de BeauvoirIn the sky there is no distinction of east and west, people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
BuddhaTruth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement StoneWhen in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark TwainAnother possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.
Dave BarrySee, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you'll do it without thinking.
Maya AngelouSincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
ConfuciusMyths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel AdamsIrony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Mason CooleyEvery mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe least deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.
AristotleConvictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich NietzscheA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph AddisonThe truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed.
EminemSome men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
AristotleA taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusAll credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth, come only from the senses.
Friedrich NietzscheWe should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich NietzscheThree things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.
BuddhaTruth stands even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma GandhiReligion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard DawkinsRivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths
Muhammad AliHow can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusTruth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma GandhiPlato is dear to me but dearer still is truth.
AristotleWhat is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
BuddhaMen have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true and usually do arrive at the truth.
AristotleThe search for truth is in one way hard, and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
AristotleEnlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology, but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight, and focused attention.
Deepak ChopraTo give a satisfactory decision as to the truth, it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
AristotleThe Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
Henry MillerPeople will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy RooneyCeremony leads her bigots forth prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths on which eternal things depend can hardly find a single friend.
William CowperBut such is the irresistable nature of truth that all it asks and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas PaineForgiveness is Truth itself it is Righteousness it is the Veda. It is the Supreme virtue in this world. Hence all people should develop the quality of forgiveness.
Sai BabaBut if you want to know the truth the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
William ShatnerWine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye, That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler YeatsWhen Love is associated with our thoughts it manifests itself as Truth.
Sai BabaIt is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision to which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
Aristotle