Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Pindar

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

Bohr, Niels

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.