Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

2.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

3.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

4.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

5.

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

6.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

7.

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

Lewis, C. S.

8.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

11.

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

12.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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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

14.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

15.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

16.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

18.

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

19.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

20.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

22.

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

Walters, Hellmut

23.

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

Mann, Horace

24.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

29.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

30.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

32.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

33.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

34.

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

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

37.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

38.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

39.

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

Lee, Bruce

40.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

41.

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

Sontag, Susan

42.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

43.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

44.

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

Hare, J. C.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

46.

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

47.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

49.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

50.

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