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Opposing Quotes

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Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton

Related topics: Wisdom

To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill,
that we shall pay any price, bear any burden,
meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe
to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy

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All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

I think that there is nothing, not even crime,
more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself
than this incessant business.
- Henry David Thoreau

The very word "secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society;
and we are as a people inherently and historically
opposed to secret societies,
to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
- John F. Kennedy

 

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous

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

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 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

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha

Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius

Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw

The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill

Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha

The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff

Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho

The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz

Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide

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

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein

About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is the truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou

Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him.
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

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