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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
The personal life deeply lived
always expands into truths beyond itself.
- Anais Nin
Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths
that give life perspective and meaning.
- Criswell Freeman
Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
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]
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu 
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- 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
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
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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.
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
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
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
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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