Motivational Quotes

Truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

- Lenin

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Walters, Hellmut

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

10.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

11.

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

Berenson, Bernard

12.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

13.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

18.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

19.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Augustine, St.

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Whately, Richard

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

35.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

37.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baldwin, James

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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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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

Huxley, Aldous

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

West, Jessamyn

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will