Motivational Quotes

Truth

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Brandes, George

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Aristotle

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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

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Pindar

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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