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25 Truth Quotes

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1. “People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.” – Richard J. Needham
2. “A half truth is a whole lie.” – Yiddish Proverb
3. “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” – William Blake
4. “No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.” – Francis Bacon
5. “A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.” – Thomas Mann
6. “The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.” – Henry David Thoreau
7. “Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.” – Unknown
8. “I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” – Pietro Ariteno
9. “You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.” – Unknown
10. “Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected” – Mahatma Gandhi
11. “Truth never tranquilizes. The defining property of truth is its ability to disturb.” – Solomon Short
12. “It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don’t mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.” – Neale Donald Walsch
13. “Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.” – Henri-Frederic Amiel
14. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you” – Friedrich Nietzsche
15. “Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou
16. “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
17. “Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend.” – Rabindranath Tagore
18. “We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.” – Tad Williams
19. “The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.” – Ann Landers
20. “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.
21. “Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.” – George Elliot
22. “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” – Henry Ward Beecher
23. “A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity” – Baltasar Gracian
24. “Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” – Martin Luther
25. “Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.” – Chuck Swindoll

Famous Love Quotes

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“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.” – Abraham Crowley

“So much of what we know of love we learn at home.” – Unknown

“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.” – Unknown

“Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.” – Unknown

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Saint-Exupery

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman

“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.” – John Donne

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.” – Joseph Conrad

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.” – La Rochefoucauld

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?” – Christopher Marlowe

Famous Opinion Quotes

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– "We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them." – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German-Swiss philosopher and writer.

– "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." – William Blake (1757-1827) British poet and painter.

– "Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.

– "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.

– "The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion." – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

– "Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods –moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former –but no opinion." – Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-born American political philosopher.

– "Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct." – Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist, author of "Sense and Sensibility

– "Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent." – Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.

– "Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know." – Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) German philosopher.

Top 10 Cute Love Quotes

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1. “Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach

2. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin

3. “Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.” – G. Moore

4. “Came but for friendship, and took away love.” – Thomas Moore

5. “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” – Leo Buscaglia

6. “If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: «Because it was he; because it was me.»” – Montaigne

7. “I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.” – Kyle Schmidt

8. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford

9. “I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” – Henry Ward Beecher

10. “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore

Laugh Quotes

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– “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” – Woody Allen

– “At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ” – Jean Houston

– “Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.” – Unknown

– “Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.” – Henry Ward Beecher

– “Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.” – Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts”, Saturday Night Live

– “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – Unknown

– “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle

– “What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!” – Agnes Repplier

– “So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.” – Gordon W. Allport

– “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge

– “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.” – Yiddish Proverb

– “When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.” – Alan Alda

– “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” – Kurt Vonnegut

– “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb

– “Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” – Bob Newhart

– “A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.” – Puzant Kevork Thomajan

– “There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.” – Françoise Sagan

– “I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, «Ain’t that the truth.»” – Quincy Jones

– “Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.” – Henri Bergson

– “Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.” – Max Eastman

– “A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.” – Raymond Hitchcock

– “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” – Kurt Vonnegut

– “Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.” – Anna Fellows Johnston

– “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.” – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4

– “You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” – Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

– “With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “Whoever said “laughter is the best medicine” never had gonorrhea.” – Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, “Robbed a Stoner Blind”, original airdate 16 November 2006

– “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” – Ken Kesey