Motivational Quotes

Truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

- Lenin

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

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Lewis, C. S.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Butler, Samuel

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Mann, Horace

33.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.