Motivational Quotes

Truth

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig