Universal Truth Quotes

• It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Real, War

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Meaningful, Regret, Mistake

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• Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sister, Letting Go, Remember

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• The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard times, and complete disasters. However, there is no other option but to be where you are, when you are. That is a universal truth for everyone. The important thing is how you respond, what you decide to do, and when you decide to do it.

  Chris Murray

  Hard Times, Important, Good Times

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• We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Truth, Learning, Steps

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• Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.

  Robert J. White

  Attitude, Belief, Opinion

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• There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

  Amish Tripathi

  Doe, Amish, My Truth

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• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Uplifting, Tales, Garments

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• There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Community, Domestic Violence

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• Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.

  Immortal Technique

  Technique, Truth Is, Mass

  Song: The Point of No Return, Album: Revolutionary, Vol. 2, 2003

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• Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.

  Alan Hirsch

  Believe, Hero, Discovery

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.106, Baker Books

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• Death is a mighty, universal truth.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Universal

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• The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Music, Mean, Air

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• Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Power, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

  Plato

  Soul, Universal, Transient

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• There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.

  Jerome Bruner

  Memories, Men, Class

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Leader, Universal

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• To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

  Evelyn Fox Keller

  Science, Mortality, Claims

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• The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

  Ernie Hudson

  Shapes, Guides, Found

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• I am constantly thankful. The world is so beautiful, I am thankful. I have endless energy, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Supply, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Truth, I am thankful. I have this constant feeling of thankfulness, which is a prayer.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Beautiful, Prayer, Feelings

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.74, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

  Jennifer Dunn

  People, Election, Vote

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• Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Real, Fighting, Atlanta

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• Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and not commit empiricist errors.

  Mao Zedong

  Mistake, Errors, Levels

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.156, Lulu.com

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• No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

  Jena Malone

  Character, Down And, Matter

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