Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

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

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Lee, Bruce

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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.

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Einstein, Albert

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.