Welcome to these Caution Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
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
Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is the truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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 shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
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
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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