The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

First and foremost you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth happiness always comes.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

It is not the possession of truth but the success which attends the seeking after it that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it but is in it.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist the great artist knows how difficult it is.

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Truth is always served by great minds even if they fight it.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Fables should be taught as fables myths as myths and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.

Truth is I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.