Motivational Quotes

Truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

- Lenin

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

10.

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

Carrel, Alexis

11.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

12.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

14.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

16.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

18.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

19.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Lowell, James Russell

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

30.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Davies, Robertson

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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