Top 100 Simple Truth Sayings
#1. often thought that the simple fact, the mechanical fact, is no closer to the truth than a vague feeling, rumor, vision. Why repeat the facts - they cover up our feelings.
Svetlana Alexievich
#2. The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
Iain McGilchrist
#3. What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better.
Devon Michael
#4. How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
Laozi
#5. The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.
Steve Maraboli
#6. the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed. The
Stephen King
#7. How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
J.I. Packer
#8. Such audacity could never be faked - Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.
Scott Lynch
#9. Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.
George S. Clason
#10. A look into the Human Mind..of how we perceive..How can we see beauty in and around us..Not the correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous..BUT..pleasure that resides in the Sense of Self !! A Self living in a state of 'nothingness' and beauty as it lies there..from that place! Simple and Deft
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#11. It was easier to make excuses, to look for reasons and flaws, than to just admit the simple truth.
Romina Russell
#12. A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Maya Angelou
#13. However much the universe and its mysteries might call him, this was where he was born and where he belonged. It would never satisfy him, yet always he would return. He had gone half-way across the Galaxy to learn this simple truth.
Arthur C. Clarke
#14. It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.
Robert Jordan
#15. There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.
Benedict Of Nursia
#16. The more loving, kind and simple we are, the more we resemble the God.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
James Thurber
#18. The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives. This simple but powerful truth is too often forgotten in the pursuit of material and financial wealth.
Mahbub Ul Haq
#19. To be a winner in life, be simple and be kind.
You will win the heart and you will win the mind.
Debasish Mridha
#20. I think I cry because it always strikes me as sacred, all those people going by. People who decided simply to live their truth, even when doing so wasn't simple. Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you'll crucify me.
Just like Jesus did.
Cheryl Strayed
#22. Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
Walter Raleigh
#23. If it's God you're worried about, the Lord Jesus said that we needn't keep to the old ways anymore. They had their day years ago.
Diane Samuels
#24. It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend more than we take in. Something - that changes the tone of the debate.
Frank Luntz
#25. Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:
Things least to be believed are most preferred.
All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,
Are readily believed if once put down in print
John Clare
#26. That's the problem with any 'simple truth' - it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.
Ali Sheikh
#27. Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.
Meher Baba
#28. It was a simple truth he had understood for years, people hurt others when they are hurt, and hurting them back won't make a damn difference.
Taylor Adams
#29. How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.
Charles Baudelaire
#30. This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
Tariq Ramadan
#31. The truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world. It couldn't, plain and simple.
Delia Parr
#32. The truth is the truth. 'Rarely pure and never simple,' as Oscar Wilde would say.
Kami Garcia
#33. Resentment, anger, jealousy, pain, hurt, and depression are poisons that you drink but expect someone else to die. Life does not work that way. Most people take lifetimes to understand this simple truth.
Sadhguru
#34. To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#36. It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't believe that, then you'll pray small timid prayers; if you do believe it, then you'll pray big audacious prayers.
Mark Batterson
#37. If it's a choice between a difficult truth and a simple lie, people will take the lie every time. Even if it kills them.
Paul Murray
#38. And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
Ernst Toller
#39. Man of simple life envies the man of complex life and man of complex life envies the man of simple life! The solution is simple: Let them taste the lives they envy. And thus the envy will disappear; it will replace with the truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. Here is the simple truth about people: Love the ones you want to keep.
Pleasefindthis
#41. People can leave, and then they can come back. It sounds simple, like an obvious thing. But when I realized that, the truth if it seemed important.
Ava Dellaira
#42. My philosophy of life is very simple; I want to be very simple, loving, and kind.
Debasish Mridha
#44. Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
John Stuart Blackie
#45. When you are very simple, honest, and kind, people may take advantage of you and cheat you, but be loving and kind. Remember that no one can cheat you except you and yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#46. In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.
Michael Mandelbaum
#47. While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
Aimee Bender
#48. No one is as simple as they may seem to be.
Lik Hock Yap
#49. The simple truth is that interstellar distance will not fit the human imagination.
Douglas Adams
#50. Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#52. The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.
Johann Hari
#53. She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people ...
Nicholas Sparks
#54. Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple
truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your
most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the
key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in
life.
Brian Tracy
#56. It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
Byron Katie
#57. Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
Ann Voskamp
#58. The perfect beauty of the pattern that each raindrop makes as it joins its puddle.
Jay Woodman
#59. One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went into Iraq on the basis of some intuition, some fear, and some exaggerated rhetoric and some very, very scanty evidence.
Wesley Clark
#60. The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it's not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a book or poem or painting before the public, because it is, in fact, enormously revealing.
Terri Windling
#61. Christmas time - an Enlightened Teacher came into the world, taught, and died. His message was simple: Forgive. While the human beings of this planet have still not absorbed this simple Truth, it remains the Truth.
Frederick Lenz
#62. Facts are simple and facts are straight.
Facts are lazy and facts are late.
Facts all come with points of view.
Facts don't do what I want them to.
Facts just twist the truth around.
Facts are living turned inside out.
David Byrne
#63. Racism towards Muslims is as evil as anti-Semitism, but try to express this simple truth on a partisan Palestinian or Israeli website.
Chris Hedges
#64. You think you know the truth. You no longer want to hold it from public gaze, you reveal it to simple souls who can't manage it and you lead them into unbelief, then you are left with a mob of monsters you do not know what to do with
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#65. The simple truth is that the truth does not exist, it all depends on a persons point of view.
Laura Esquivel
#66. O r simple ones, learn s prudence; O t fools, learn sense. 6 Hear, for I will speak u noble things, and from my lips will come v what is right, 7 for my w mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Anonymous
#67. As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.
Marisha Pessl
#68. While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.
Jerrold Nadler
#69. I don't understand it. What can there be in a simple little story like that to make people praise it so?" she said, quite bewildered. "There is truth in it, Jo, that's the secret.
Louisa May Alcott
#70. Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.
Martin Luther
#71. People sometimes forget how to be happy due to a failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal footing. That was the only moral a story must have.
Ian McEwan
#72. Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.
Mahlon Hoagland
#73. The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.
Diane Ackerman
#74. It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.
James Cameron
#75. All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#76. As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I've learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.
Mark Batterson
#77. The pure and simple truth, it has been said, is rarely pure and never simple.
Ben Mercer
#78. It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.
David Boies
#79. The truth is simple Alex; it doesn't need a lot of words. Besides, people love chocolate, their shoes, last week's big hit. I'm yours, I always will be.
Diane Adams
#80. Wisdom is better than knowledge, for wisdom is simple but knowledge is complex.
Debasish Mridha
#81. In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
Nirmala Srivastava
#82. The simple truth - every day is precious. When it's gone, it never comes back to you.
Emilie Barnes
#83. And when one kind of animal overruns an area to the point where many kinds of animal begin to starve, it's up to the predators to thin out the herds before there's nothing left for anyone. That's a simple truth whether you're talking about deer or humans.
Anne Bishop
#84. Evil is simple. It's a child's explanation for why people do bad things. The truth is always more complicated and worth pursuing.
Mindy Mejia
#85. The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.
Niels Bohr
#86. There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.
Gao Xingjian
#87. The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.
Robert G. Thompson
#89. To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods. If these truths mean the world is less comforting than it might have been, it seems like a pretty small price to pay.
Mira Grant
#90. All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Iris Murdoch
#91. Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the fact that white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely unremarked.
Chinua Achebe
#92. In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.
Siri Hustvedt
#93. When seeing the simple truth means recognizing that we're in sin, we would rather see things as being complicated.
Anna Sofia Botkin
#94. Their lives are what hold meaning. Dying is simple. Living for something is much harder.
Mark T. Barnes
#95. A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
Vash Young
#96. People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
Mario Cuomo
#97. We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.
Deb Caletti
#98. The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.
Dag Hammarskjold
#99. What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.
Sarada Devi
#100. A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth,
Tom Morello
