Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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

Tomlin, Lily

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Edith Sitwell

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Tom Bissell

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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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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

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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I am always going to be true to myself.