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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Opposing.
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
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
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
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
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is the truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Everything 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 Schweitzer
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,
you have understood the great truth.
- Lao Tzu
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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