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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. -- Tullian Tchividjian
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. -- William Hazlitt
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest. -- John Charles Polanyi
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish. -- Tony Judt
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. -- James Broughton
I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed. -- Marcus Brigstocke
If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self. -- Carl Bernstein
Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths. -- LZ Granderson
We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external. -- Josh McDowell
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
The truth is, as much as I loved writing restaurant reviews, it always felt very self-indulgent to me. It was so much fun, I loved doing it, but there's so much else to say about food. -- Ruth Reichl
Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many. -- Michael Leunig
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. -- John Updike
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.' -- Roger Rosenblatt
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. -- Terry Gross
Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. Obama has. -- John Ridley
What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn't played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls. -- Catherine Bybee
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality. -- Will Self
I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier. -- Will Self
Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth. -- Anne Cameron
Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self. -- Sorin Cerin
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth. -- Longchenpa
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . -- Timothy Keller
The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression. -- Shirley Manson
The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons. -- Walter Lippmann
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. -- Georges Bataille
Get naked with your truth, offering the world your greatest gift: your authentic self. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self. -- Terry Goodkind
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate. -- Edmund Spenser
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. -- Marcus Aurelius
Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking. -- Mike Hulme
Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty. -- John Pierrakos
The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute -- Damian Marley
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth. -- Seth
Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God. -- Gian Kumar
If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living. -- T.F. Hodge
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth. -- Kabir
Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self. -- Marlo Morgan
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To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God. -- Rodney Collin
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured. -- Marcus Aurelius
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. -- Chanakya
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave. -- William Blake
Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. -- Khalil Gibran
In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. -- Eckhart Tolle
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair. -- Elyse Fitzpatrick
To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life. -- Karen Horney
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all. -- Djuna Barnes
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. -- Phil McGraw
The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One. -- Anandamayi Ma
Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always. -- Sue Monk Kidd
The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'. -- Stacey Kade
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer. -- Frank Herbert
As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish. -- Jaida Jones
So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process. -- Kitty Ferguson
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within. -- Justine Musk
Who has magnificent self-confidence And fears nothing that exists? The man who has attained to truth And lives free of error. -- Dalai Lama
No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth. -- Barry Long
Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man. -- Charles Simmons
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.... -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth. -- Vishnudevananda Saraswati
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with. -- Alexei Panshin
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth -- Che Guevara
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light. -- Saint Augustine
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth. -- Horace Mann
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others? -- Ramana Maharshi
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal. -- Adi Shankara
If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control. -- Anonymous
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth. -- Ingmar Bergman
A path toward Truth is darkness; a journey through the woods, at night, blindfolded. Find 'Self' & you can find Light with eyes closed. -- Ace Antonio Hall
When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence! -- Tae Yun Kim
You simply cannot trust or refer to your experience of your self to tell you what you are, to tell you the truth within. -- John de Ruiter
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth -- Eric Hoffer
Your self doesn't represent the truth in you, your being does. Give your ease only to what you know represents the truth in you. -- John de Ruiter
I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are. -- Anita Moorjani
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Self-deception comes from not having enough psychological strength to admit the truth and deal with the consequences that will follow when the truth is acknowledges. -- Cortney S. Warren
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation. -- Ramana Maharshi
Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards. -- R. A. Salvatore
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds. -- Robert Greene
To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many. -- John Lancaster Spalding
The truth is, I can't read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better. -- Marc Maron
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live! -- William Wordsworth
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. -- Whitney Young
Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective"?even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth. -- Jeff Vandermeer
The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need! -- Dave Hunt
Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life. -- Oprah Winfrey
To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second. -- Louis Pasteur
One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth. -- Ramesh Menon
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
...just being ordinary in and of itself is and expression of divinity; the truth of one's real self can be discovered through the pathway of everyday life. -- David Hawkins
if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity. -- Ming-Dao Deng
Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth. -- James Allen
It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention. -- Michael Hainey
Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway. -- Julia Cameron
Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop! -- Gangaji
I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones. -- William Butler Yeats
It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't. -- Mark Twain
What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices. -- Zygmunt Bauman
There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self. -- Nicholas Delbanco

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