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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
Truth Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Truth

1.
We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
Truman, Harry S

2.
The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
Lewis, C. S.

3.
I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
Pilgrim, Peace

4.
The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain

6.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Confucius

7.
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

8.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.
Pirsig, Robert M.

9.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
W. Somerset Maugham

10.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Gandhi, Mahatma

11.
I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
West, Jessamyn

12.
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Dickinson, Emily

13.
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

14.
Truth is always the strongest argument.
Sophocles

15.
Too much truth is uncouth.
Adams, Franklin P.

16.
This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.
Tom Bissell

17.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Einstein, Albert

18.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Herbert, Frank

19.
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
Einstein, Albert

20.
Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.
Bible

21.
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
Bacon, Francis

22.
See it like it is!
Cohen, Herb

23.
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
Baldwin, James

24.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.
Adler, Alfred

25.
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
Richards, R. Scott

26.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Einstein, Albert

27.
One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.
Strachey, Lionel

28.
All necessary truth is its own evidence.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.
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

30.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Lennon, John

31.
But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.
William Shakespeare

32.
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple
Wilde, Oscar

33.
True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.
Richter, Jean Paul

34.
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
Shaw, George Bernard

35.
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

36.
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
Low, Albert

37.
They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
William Shakespeare

38.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Churchill, Winston

39.
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
Hemingway, Ernest

40.
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.

41.
If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?
Tomlin, Lily

42.
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

43.
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

44.
The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent
Blake, William

45.
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
Quesnel, Pasquier

46.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Stevens, Wallace

47.
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
Scott Westerfeld

48.
I am always going to be true to myself.
Diana, Princess of Wales

49.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod

50.
No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.
Kersha, Al


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