A Quote by Frederick Douglass

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass
American - Author
February 14, 1818 - February 20, 1895

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Frances Wright

There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.

Adolf Hitler

The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

Richard M. Nixon

The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.

Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.

Charlotte Bronte

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

Daniel Handler

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Samuel P. Huntington

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

Swami Vivekananda

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

Eckhart Tolle

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

Chauncey Wright

Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.

Lester Levenson

Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

Eckhart Tolle

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Ernest Renan

Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So the task of serious journalism isn't just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.

Alain de Botton

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