Seek Truth and Wisdom: Standing on the shoulders of giants

Today we shall be standing on the shoulders of the following giants, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,” - Sir Isaac Newton, because “The best leaders know that they are standing on the shoulders of others who have come before them.” - Germany Kent.

1. People tend to whisper when they say the truth and raise their voice when they lie. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2. The wise try to adjust themselves to the truth, while fools try to adjust the truth to themselves. - Thibaut
3. “Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.” —Kelli Wilson
4. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
5. All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw
6. “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” - William Faulkner
7. Individuals search for truth, groups search for consensus. - Naval Ravikant
8. You can have ignorance or you can have self-knowledge. You can live deluded or you can live for truth. - Maxime Lagacé
9. For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. - Aristotle
10. “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” - Flannery O'Connor
11. “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” - Henry David Thoreau
12. Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it. —Confucius
13. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” - Pablo Picasso
14. I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take. - Friedrich Nietzsche
15. “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” - Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
16. Yes, the truth may hurt but lies will become a crutch and will cripple you. - Stephen T. Scott
17. It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome
18. “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.” - Stephanie Klein
19. A man is beginning to learn the Truth about life when he is no longer surprised by anything. - Kapil Gupta
20. “First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
21. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” - Ernest Hemingway
22. As mothers, our job, ... is to help our sons seek knowledge and truth, because these are the things that bring true satisfaction of the soul. - Meg Meeker Md
23. “There are no facts, only interpretations.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
24. In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood. - Theodore Roosevelt
25. “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” - George Bernard Shaw
26. People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. - Andy Rooney
27. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” —Winston Churchill
28. The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it. - George Orwell
29. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. - Kahlil Gibran
30. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” - Marcus Aurelius
31. “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” - Edward Abbey
32. “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” - David Foster Wallace
33. “The only truth is music.” - Jack Kerouac
34. The things that we decide to run from are the truth. When you make excuses, you’re running from the truth. - David Goggins
35. There's an old saying that if a lie is told often enough, it becomes the truth. Actually, it doesn't. What happens is that people simply start believing that it's true. - Bailey Jackson
36. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” —W. Clement Stone
37. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. - Buddha
38. “Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.” - George R.R. Martin
39. In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow – and that is likely to hurt. - Wei Wu Wei
40. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” - George Washington
41. The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies." - Thomas Jefferson
42. “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” - Malcolm X
43. “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” - Lao Tzu
44. The only way to tell the truth is to speak it with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard. - Henry David Thoreau
45. Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. - George Washington
46. ?“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.” - Nadine Gordimer
47. "But even celebrities, if truth be told, must have their small quiet moments of clarity. Moments where they are not rich and famous, they just . . . are." - Roz Swartz Williams
48. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” - Soren Kierkegaard
49. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against. - Osho
50. “Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.” —Don Miguel Ruiz
51. “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” - C.S. Lewis
52. “Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.” - T.S. Eliot
53. Telling a truth is not only a matter of character, but is also a matter of appreciating factual situations and representing them without bias. - M. K. Soni
54. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. - Jesus Christ
55. “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” -?Walt Whitman
56. “Truth never damages a cause that is just.” - Mahatma Gandhi
57. Every person must choose how much truth he can stand. —Irvin D. Yalom
58. It is great fun if you have rejected totally everything that man has said. Because then you stand alone; when you find out for yourself, it will be authentic, real, true, not dependent on any professor, any psychologist, any analyst. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
59. Truth is always universal. Positive thinking can never fail; it is a proven truth. - Bill Mcdowell
60. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” - Albert Einstein
61. “To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.” - Lao Tse
62. In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – Unknown
63. Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie to make someone laugh. - Paulo Coelho
64. “It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” - Germany Kent
65. If the truth be told, small amounts of stress are actually helpful in our everyday life. - Robert Gallagher
66. “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.” —Leo Tolstoy
67. “A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.” - Christopher Pike, Sati
68. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth. - William Faulkner
69. “Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.” - Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
70. “I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.” - Anne Rice
71. ... in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth. - Edgar Allan Poe
72. Half a truth is often a great lie. - Benjamin Franklin
73. It does not require many words to speak the truth. - Chief Joseph
74. “A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.” —Robert Green Ingersoll
75. “Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.” - Ja A. Jahannes
76. “Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong." - Albert Einstein
77. Despite what you might have been told, we're not inherently selfish. The truth is, we're inherently kind. - David R. Hamilton PhD
78. There is nothing more necessary than truth, in comparison with it, everything else has only secondary value. - Friedrich Nietzsche
79. “If knowledge is not put into practice, it does not benefit one.” - Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
80. “If you want the answer—ask the question.” - Lorii Myers
81. “Learn what is true in order to do what is right.” —Thomas Huxley
82. Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. - Ismail Haniyeh
83. Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living. - Buddha
84. People don't walk away from the truth; they walk away in search of truth. - Michelle Anthony
85. “Knowledge is power? No. Knowledge on its own is nothing, but the application of useful knowledge, now that is powerful.” - Rob Liano
86. “Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue” - Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
87. “Do question, even the basics! You will be a fool for once! If you don't, you will be, for a lifetime..” – Himmilicious
88. The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. - Augustine of Hippo
89. “The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”?—Ayn Rand
90. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. - Benjamin Disraeli
91. “Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.” - Brandi L. Bates
92. “The first person you have to resurrect is yourself” - The RZA
93. Truth: something hard to say and hard to hide. - Paulo Coelho
94. “Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.” - Ismat Ahmed Shaikh
95. “By doubting we are led to question; by questioning we arrive at the truth.” —Peter Abelard
96. “We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.” - Dejan Stojanovic
97. “There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.” - Sachin Kumar Puli
98. The truth is silent. The truth doesn’t come with words. It’s something that I just know, it’s something that I can feel without words, and it’s called silent knowledge. - Don Miguel Ruiz
99. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson
100. “We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.” - Israelmore Ayivor
101. “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” —Malcolm X
102. “There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.” - Martin Schuster
103. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. - Mark Twain
104. “Knowledge that is not being used for winning of further knowledge does not even remain- it decays and disappears.” - J D Bernal
105. “Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness!” - Monique Rockliffe
106. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. - Abraham Lincoln
107. “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.” —John Lennon
108. O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil! - William Shakespeare
109. “The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.” - Abhijit Naskar
110. “The highest knowledge, knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.” - Lailah Gifty Akita
111. “Knowledge is power.” - Abraham Verghese
112. “First knowledge is the knowledge of God.” - Lailah Gifty Akita
113. In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess. - 14th Dalai Lama
114. Standing courageously for an unpopular opinion isn’t easy, but the rewards of standing courageously for the truth will last forever.” —Rick Warren
115. We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Iris Murdoch
116. “The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.” - Dewayne Owens
117. “Ideas aren’t meant to be stored in the mind. They are to be nurtured, unleashed, and enjoyed.” - Utibe Samuel Mbom
118. What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one. - Albert Einstein
119. “Knowledge loses its relevance very fast. However, a person can create new knowledge by blending his knowledge with fresh observations.” - Sukant Ratnakar
120. “The truth is anyone can be the difference; all it takes is using whatever you have, to do whatever you can.” —Darius Graham
121. “The light of knowledge makes the dark soul to shine” - Tamerlan Kuzgov
122. The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright
123. First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
124. “Stay inquisitive with a thirst for knowledge. Become a scholar in your field and lead the way for others.” - Germany Kent
125. “The real knowledge is in black and white so guess what? You have to read.” - Najah Roberts
126. “Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” —Buddha
127. “KNOWLEDGE IS A SWORD THAT NEVER RUSTS” - P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
128. You don’t have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it. - Maya Angelou
129. “Simple people always rely on common sense. Smart people always rely on crazy nonsense.” - Joey Lawsin
130. Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. - Aristotle
131. “Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. And if wisdom were given me under the express condition that it must be kept hidden and not uttered, I should refuse it. No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.” – Seneca
132. Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. —Leo Tolstoy
133. We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth. - Seneca
134. “If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.” - Abhijit Naskar
135. “Real education leads to the liberation of the mind.” - Abhijit Naskar
136. “Not every kind of knowledge is good. One must confine one’s curiosity to a single direction.” – Abhaidev
137. A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. - Thomas Mann
138. Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule. - Charles Dickens
139. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. —Albert Einstein
140. “Madam, knowledge is more precious than gold.” - Sooji Kim
141. “Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.” - Abhijit Naskar
142. “It's In Applying, Even If Little, That Knowledge Becomes Realization".” - Venugopal Acharya
143. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - René Descartes
144. “Knowledge is the lifeblood of progress.” - Frank Sonnenberg
145. “The truth is effortless.” —Rashida Costa
146. “I can never lose my knowledge to you, probably you can gain my knowledge” - J. Ruby
147. “I shall never lose my knowledge to anyone, probably, he or she shall gain my wisdom” - J. Ruby
148. Plato is my friend – Aristotle is my friend – but my greatest friend is truth. - Isaac Newton
149. “Curiosity fuels our knowledge and makes us wiser. The more curious we are, the more open-minded we tend to be as human beings.” - Kei Kaiser
150. “To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.” – John Locke?