Truth

[ziggy]

I would like to start a thread with things/observations that YOU know to be true. Its not a right/wrong thing just things you know to be true.

1. A clean desk is the sign of a clutter mind.

2. A man is not a man till he looses his father.

3. Watching an 11 month old eating cheere-o's is great.

[Pete Hanlin]

Interesting thread idea... If I get your meaning correctly, you want items which you personally believe to be true. In other words, things that are internally and subjectively true.

Regarding the "other" kind of truth (objective/externally verifiable truth). I recall reading somewhere that a study was done on things we "know" to be true. In the study, people were given several hundred statements and were then asked to check off one of the following:
1.) I am certain this is true
2.) I believe this is true
3.) I am uncertain whether this is true or false
4.) I believe this to be false
5.) I am certain this is false

Interestingly, approximately 11% of the items respondents indicated were certainly true were- in fact- untrue... Again, I may have one or two particulars wrong, but as I recall, approximately 11% of what you KNOW you know is actually untrue!

Anyway, back to your original thread (sorry for the above deviation from the course)...
1.) You rarely fully appreciate anything until you lose it.
2.) If you have to demand respect- you'll never really have it.
3.) The opposite of love isn't hate- its indifference.
4.) Honest contemplation of a star-filled night sky is a sure cure for an elevated ego.

[John R]

I am always right, therfore you are always wrong..
The woman not your wife is always better looking.....
America will always follow good ol'e UK

[hcjilson]

I know this to be true.

Great to see you back John......now my education can continue!!! harry

[Ory]

When you throw away something you've been saving "just in case" you will need it the next day.

[Night Train]

1.) The closer I get to understanding God, the further away I realize that I am

2.) The more I know, the More I realize that I do not know.

[Cindy K]

--there are more days in a month than there are days in a paycheque.

--the more we have the more we want the more we need

--brought a frame in 'on approval' for a client and despite several reminder calls they still haven't showed up to see it? Send it back for credit; within two days they'll magically appear in the dispensary asking if you still have it.

[chm2023]

The phone always rings when you're in the bathroom.

The older I get, the more patience I need and the less I have.

Our country is getting more and more polarized politically.

There is nothing better than a crisp fall day in Pennsylvania, going to a high school football game at night with a bonfire.

The older I get, the faster the time goes.

Air conditioning is the best invention ever.

[hcjilson]

This is true:

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

[chm2023]

The louder and more frequently a person talks on a cellphone in public, the biggest an a******

[k12311997]

The older I get the better I used to be.

[Dave Nelson]

I always liked a line from the movie "Rudy" where a priest tells him "son, in thirty years of intensive religeous studies, I have learned only two irrefutable facts: one, there is a God, and two, I aint him."

[ziggy]

Again, I may have one or two particulars wrong, but as I recall, approximately 11% of what you KNOW you know is actually untrue!

LMAO, If you ask Liz,my wife, the % of what I dont know would be much higher!

1. The nicest days, as far as the weather that is, are the days you HAVE to work.

2. A "great deal!" always comes along when you have the least money.

[Pete Hanlin]

Time is like toilet paper- you waste it until there isn't much left!

(Sorry, I sat down one day and tried to come up with a really clever witticism, and this was as close as I got.)

[hotsauce]

No need to question what you were sitting on.

[harry a saake]

if you can drive in new york, you can drive anywhere


the three stages of a mans life

tri weekly
try weekly
try weakly

[ksquared]

Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers.

[optigrrl]

harry a saake wrote: "if you can drive in new york, you can drive anywhere"

I have driven in NY. Not very well, though.

I know that the only thing constant in life is change.

It's nice to be nice to the nice.

And lastly - the meaning of Life is Happiness.

[k12311997]

the meaning of Life is Happiness.

The meaning of Life is Pain, Happiness is just an illusion.

[Ory]

No. Time is an illusion. (Lunchtime doubly so)

[chm2023]

Life is a tragedy if you have a heart, a comedy if you have a brain.

[hotsauce]

No. Time is an illusion. (Lunchtime doubly so)

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

[Snitgirl]

Anyone can be selfish; it takes a truly superior person to be considerate.

[C-10]

I like the one from Laugh In :
" I hate extremes they all should be shoot"

Getting old is not for cowards