Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

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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

2.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

3.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

4.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

5.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

6.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

7.

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

8.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

9.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

10.

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

Walters, Hellmut

11.

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

Scott Westerfeld

12.

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

13.

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

Tomlin, Lily

14.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

15.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

16.

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

17.

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

Farnham, Eliza

18.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

19.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

25.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

26.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

27.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

28.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

29.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Augustine, St.

31.

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

Davies, Robertson

32.

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

Blake, William

33.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

34.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

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

Adler, Alfred

37.

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