Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Barnes, Leonard

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

10.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

11.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

12.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

13.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

14.

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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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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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

17.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

18.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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

Russell, Utterly

20.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Norris, Frank

22.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

24.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

25.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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.

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

28.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

33.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

34.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Farnham, Eliza

41.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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