The Simple Truth Quotes

#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. It was easier to make excuses, to look for reasons and flaws, than to just admit the simple truth.

Romina Russell

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Here is the simple truth about people: Love the ones you want to keep.

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#8. 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

#9. The simple truth is that interstellar distance will not fit the human imagination.

Douglas Adams

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. The simple truth is that the truth does not exist, it all depends on a persons point of view.

Laura Esquivel

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. The simple truth - every day is precious. When it's gone, it never comes back to you.

Emilie Barnes

#17. The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

Robert G. Thompson

#18. 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

#19. When seeing the simple truth means recognizing that we're in sin, we would rather see things as being complicated.

Anna Sofia Botkin

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. ...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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Our eyes tell us what we want to believe, but our heart tells us only the simple truth

Karla M. Nashar

#30. 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

#31. There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.

Wayne C. Booth

#32. 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

#33. Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

Susan Griffin

#34. 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

#35. Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

Sam Sheppard

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

Ronald Reagan

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar - another means to control.

Chris Galford

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. The simple truth is ordinary, open and shared by all.

Cheryl Abram

#46. The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick

Bernie Siegel

#47. 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

#48. The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.

Kevin McCarthy

#49. There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

#50. The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

Stephen King

#51. It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

William Barclay

#52. 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

#53. Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available ...

Karen Traviss

#54. 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.

#55. 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

#56. Roosevelt returned to this theme in his fourth inaugural address in 1945: We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one." We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.

Henry Kissinger

#57. We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#58. The temptation with a man of refined thought and high education is to depart from the simple truth of Christ crucified, and to invent, as the term is, a more intellectual doctrine.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#59. But the simple truth was that when a girl like Corinne loves you, you don't ask why. You just hope it doesn't change. Tyler

Megan Miranda

#60. I suppose the simple truth we must learn to reclaim is the power of the hug, of the embrace. Not just of neighbor, enemy, ourselves or even God. The abundance of life is known through the embrace of it all.

David Arthur Auten

#61. The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just another part of it.

Brenna Yovanoff

#62. The simple truth is that every human being should be born with basic human rights without suffering from discrimination.

Leta B.

#63. The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

Larry Craig

#64. The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#65. The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

Anthony Kennedy

#66. The simple truth hit Shiva: if the entire society was conscious of its duties, nobody would need to fight for their individual rights. Since everybody's rights would be automatically taken care of through someone else's duties. Lord Ram was a genius!

Amish Tripathi

#67. 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

#68. The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Iain McGilchrist

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.

Robert Jordan

#76. There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.

Benedict Of Nursia

#77. The more loving, kind and simple we are, the more we resemble the God.

Debasish Mridha

#78. 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

#79. To be a winner in life, be simple and be kind.
You will win the heart and you will win the mind.

Debasish Mridha

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. The truth is the truth. 'Rarely pure and never simple,' as Oscar Wilde would say.

Kami Garcia

#87. 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

#88. Simple kindness can move the world.

Debasish Mridha

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. Simple is the language of truth.

Seneca The Younger

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. 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