Top 100 The Truth Is Simple Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
Walt Whitman
#4. The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
Erica Jong
#5. The truth is simple: Life is perfectly imperfect, unpredictable, and unexplainable.
HeatherAsh Amara
#6. It is far from simple to show the truth, yet the truth is simple.
Dziga Vertov
#7. Lies are complicated. The truth is simple.
Rick Yancey
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.
Benedict Of Nursia
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. The truth is the truth. 'Rarely pure and never simple,' as Oscar Wilde would say.
Kami Garcia
#15. 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
#16. The simple truth is that interstellar distance will not fit the human imagination.
Douglas Adams
#17. 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
#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 the truth does not exist, it all depends on a persons point of view.
Laura Esquivel
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
Nirmala Srivastava
#24. The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.
Robert G. Thompson
#26. 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
#27. The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.
Dag Hammarskjold
#28. It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.
Ramesh S Balsekar
#29. The difference here 'twixt simple and witty folk, if the truth be known, is that your plain man cares much for what stand ye take and not a fart for why ye take it, while your smart wight leaves ye whate'er stand ye will, sobeit ye defend it cleverly.
John Barth
#30. 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
#31. Facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. Good or bad the idea is simply to face the facts. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself without cutting yourself down.
Chogyam Trungpa
#32. The truth is never pure and rarely simple.
Oscar Wilde
#33. The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects
Johnny Rich
#34. 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
#35. Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing
David Simon
#36. 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
#37. Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.
Helena Rubinstein
#38. 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
#39. These Days, Keeping Anything "Simple" Is The Most "Complex" Task To Do ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#40. one of the conditions or problems of having knowledge, that a seemingly simple question only has a simple answer if one's knowledge is simple, but simplicity is not truth, for the greater one's knowledge, the more one must consider if a fair answer is to be given.
Jordan Baker
#41. I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple.
Jeannette Walls
#42. Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
Criss Jami
#43. So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
Tycho Brahe
#44. 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
#45. Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'
Susan Griffin
#46. Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple
Jimmy Buffett
#47. The rest of us learned the simple lesson - invaluable in a bureaucratic society - that there is no moral or practical obligation to tell the truth when filling in forms.
Auberon Waugh
#48. 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
#49. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.
Amish Tripathi
#51. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#52. But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.
Ronald Reagan
#53. In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.
Martin Gardner
#54. The poets are wrong of course [ ... ] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
William Faulkner
#55. The only way to find happiness is to be simple and love every moment and every thing.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Happiness is not the simple purpose of life but it is the ultimate purpose of all purposes of life.
Debasish Mridha
#57. The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.
Hugh Jackman
#58. But 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, plan and simple.
Delia Parr
#59. But a question needs to be asked, a basic logical scientific question. It is simply this, has anyone applied Ockham's Razor to the question yet?
Leviak B. Kelly
#60. 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
#61. The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
Kim Il-sung
#62. 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
#63. The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick
Bernie Siegel
#65. The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.
Kevin McCarthy
#66. There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens
#68. The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.
Stephen King
#69. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde
Greg Iles
#70. 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
#71. It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert Menzies
#72. True love comes from the heart, it is very simple and nonjudgmental.
Debasish Mridha
#73. The language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.
Frances Wright
#74. The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.
Jeffrey Kluger
#75. 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.
#76. Know that all times are Holy, that every religion holds truth, that each tradition is sacred, and that it is in the simple sharing of love that we make our beliefs come alive, and our dreams come true.
Neale Donald Walsch
#77. In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor ... Being true is different than being honest.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#78. Truth is rarely simple and seldom obvious, which is why mature institutions recognise the importance of conflict and disagreement. Christianity was born in conflict, and it has been characterised by conflict ever since. The Church's obsession with heresy is witness to this fact.
Richard Holloway
#79. Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness.
Bryant McGill
#80. Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.
Elizabeth Chandler
#81. The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
#82. 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
#83. Some will call this self-indulgence
(They are lucky not to know its truth)
Some will know the simple fact of pain
This is becoming my normality
Sarah Kane
#84. Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
Criss Jami
#85. We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#86. Live simply so that others may simply live was marvelously observed by St. Elizabeth Seton . If this simple truth could only be programmed into the human DNA, imagine the possibilities. Until than, the education of the human heart is the answer and our only hope.
Adam Kovacevic
#87. 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
#88. The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#89. Men and women of integrity understand intrinsically that theirs is the precious right to hold their heads in the sunlight of truth, unashamed before anyone. Embodied within this simple principle and character trait rests the foundational virtue of every person and of every society.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#90. Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
#91. 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
#92. The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.
Oscar Wilde
#93. National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty
Sunday Adelaja
#94. If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be.
J. L. Mackie
#95. Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
William Faulkner
#96. The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.
Hillary Jordan
#97. The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player.
Stephen Richards
#98. It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
George Santayana
#99. A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment ... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.
Max Frisch
#100. The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, you heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.
Gregory David Roberts
