Top 100 Simple Truth Sayings
#1. The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.
Steve Maraboli
#2. 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
#3. It was easier to make excuses, to look for reasons and flaws, than to just admit the simple truth.
Romina Russell
#4. 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
#5. It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.
Robert Jordan
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Here is the simple truth about people: Love the ones you want to keep.
Pleasefindthis
#15. 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
#16. The simple truth is that interstellar distance will not fit the human imagination.
Douglas Adams
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. The simple truth is that the truth does not exist, it all depends on a persons point of view.
Laura Esquivel
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. The pure and simple truth, it has been said, is rarely pure and never simple.
Ben Mercer
#28. The simple truth - every day is precious. When it's gone, it never comes back to you.
Emilie Barnes
#29. 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
#30. The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.
Robert G. Thompson
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. When seeing the simple truth means recognizing that we're in sin, we would rather see things as being complicated.
Anna Sofia Botkin
#34. 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
#35. Things weren't ever what they were supposed to be; they were what they were, and that was the simple truth of it, a truth that didn't change just because you wanted it to.
Dennis Lehane
#36. When you say: The simple truth is this, and then you pause, and then you finish the sentence, people stop, and they think specifically about what you're saying. And it's, in essence, trying to boil it down to something that's very understandable and meaningful.
Frank Luntz
#37. The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects
Johnny Rich
#38. Yet without Chaos there would be no Creation, and perhaps no Creator. That is the simple truth of all existence, Lord Elric. The promise of immortality.
Michael Moorcock
#39. To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity.
Robin Williams
#40. ...we all face similar pressures to forget the simple truth of who we are. Particularly the truths that don't jive with what we see around us. As time wears us down we can forget who we once were.
Ted Dekker
#41. The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.
George Clooney
#42. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.
Ian McEwan
#43. The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.
Albert J. Nock
#44. Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God's joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense of humor.
Jamila Hammad
#45. Our eyes tell us what we want to believe, but our heart tells us only the simple truth
Karla M. Nashar
#46. Yes, the simple truth about the greatest businesspeople I have known is that they have a genuine fascination for the truly astonishing impact little things done exactly right can have on the world.
Anonymous
#47. I know a simple truth: mercy killing doesn't hold one fucking ounce of mercy for those that live.
Karen Marie Moning
#48. Pointing out that overspending on public-employee benefits leads to fiscal instability does not mean that public employees are bad people or that they deserve to fall on hard times; it's just observing a simple truth.
Devin Nunes
#49. There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.
Wayne C. Booth
#51. The simple truth is that the only real 'ex-gay' person is a dead gay person - and even then I am not too sure about the validity of that statement.
Christina Engela
#52. It is a simple truth that if we identify ourselves as being fundamentally pure, strong, and capable we will actually develop these qualities, but if we continue to think of ourselves as dull and foolish, that is what we will become.
Thubten Yeshe
#53. Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'
Susan Griffin
#54. Compensation is counterintuitive: The more treasure you give away to those who serve well, the more treasure will return to you. But few people perceive this simple truth. Most try to keep as much as they can for themselves and give little away. That's why their purses refuse to fatten.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#55. Here's the simple truth that isn't so simple: Raising kids to be different from the world really does make them different from the world.
Kristen Welch
#56. he came to realize a simple truth: Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn't need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness - he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him.
Cal Newport
#57. But prominent families, often forget a simple truth, I've found.
Knowledge is power.
George R R Martin
#58. A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can't do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right.
Fredrik Backman
#59. Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.
Sam Sheppard
#60. Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?
Alexander Cockburn
#61. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.
Amish Tripathi
#62. 'How much longer will I live?' ... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.
Henri Nouwen
#63. We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#64. My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.
Dorothy Dunnett
#65. Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Mason Cooley
#66. But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.
Ronald Reagan
#67. she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.
Barbara Kingsolver
#68. Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others.
Beth Revis
#69. Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.
Andy Stanley
#70. What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth.
Barry Moltz
#71. One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement.
L. Ron Hubbard
#72. There are forces of nature and circumstance that are beyond our control, let alone our understanding, and to insist on victory in the face of this, to accept nothing less, is just asking for a soul-pummeling. The simple truth is, not every fight can be won.
Elyn R. Saks
#73. The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar - another means to control.
Chris Galford
#74. Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.
Nicholas Sparks
#75. There are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's. Astounded
Susan Meissner
#76. The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Dave Barry
#77. The not so simple Truth is that we must be psychologically free in order to resist and we must resist in order to be free, and all of this requires an understanding of what bondage has been, of what it continues to be and of its ramifications for the future.
Mari Evans
#78. Basically all the religions,sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end!
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#79. He awakened to the simple truth that it is never what a person says or does that affects him, it is his reaction to what is said or done that matters.
Joseph Murphy
#80. The simple truth is ordinary, open and shared by all.
Cheryl Abram
#81. The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick
Bernie Siegel
#82. Regardless of your age or station in life, it all comes down to one simple truth: you just have to start.
Jon Acuff
#83. The human brain has the computational efficiency of 10^-26. You are an abacus of horse guts and shiny beads beside me. You do not understand. Cannot comprehend. And I have no time to bend the meat inside your skull and make it grasp the simple truth that still somehow eludes you.
Amie Kaufman
#85. The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity!
Ramana Maharshi
#86. Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.
Robert Jordan
#87. The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.
Kevin McCarthy
#88. There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens
#89. The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.
Stephen King
#90. It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
William Barclay
#91. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's.
Susan Meissner
#92. Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available ...
Karen Traviss
#93. I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
Amy Tan
#94. That a teacher of the gospel should first be a partaker of it is a simple truth, but at the same time a rule of the most weighty importance.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#95. Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.
Brian Swimme
#96. But I think the thing that takes
me the most courage is realizing that as many oceans as I
might cross, the stupid simple truth will always be on the
other side.
Ava Dellaira
#97. He looked so - what was it that gave him his irresistible charm? He looked so accessible. That was it. A great simple truth struck me with surprise: charm is availability.
Elaine Dundy
#98. Anybody who says "I know how to get to God and you don't, do this and do that and go here and go there" is going to become 1. very powerful and 2. very rich. The simple truth is, if I am with God, no less can you be with God at the same time as I am.
C. JoyBell C.
#99. I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214
Melody Beattie
#100. Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness.
Bryant McGill
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