Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Truth

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

3.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

5.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

6.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

8.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

10.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

13.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

17.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

18.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

19.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

20.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

25.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Davies, Robertson

27.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

28.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

29.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

30.

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

31.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

32.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

35.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

36.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

37.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

39.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

40.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

42.

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

Adler, Alfred

43.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

45.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

46.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

47.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

48.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

50.

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