Truth quotes
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Truth quotes by Abraham Linkoln
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Truth quotes by Ernest Hemingway
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Art, Reality, DeathTruth quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
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Philosophy, Experience, RealityTruth quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
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God, Violence, Vocation, Peace
There is no god higher than truth.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Truth quotes by George Gordon Byron
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Change, Lie, Fiction
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
Truth quotes by Albert Camus
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Passion, Liberty, Delusion
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.
Che Guevara
Truth quotes by Anonymous
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Relationships
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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.
Truth quotes by Martin Luther King Jr
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Education, Intelligence, Character, Love, Reality, Law, Punishment
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Truth quotes by Charles Darwin
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Hope, Fear, Vanity, FameTruth quotes by Max Planck
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Science, Change, Opposition, Inspiration, Happiness, Success, Motivation, Life, Work
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.
Truth quotes by Pope Francis
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Vanity, Misery
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.
Truth quotes by George Orwell
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Life, Duty, Propaganda, Delusion, Sanity, Writers, Sincerity, WritingTruth quotes by Bob Marley
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God, People, Advice, Children, Breeding, Freedom, Song lyrics
I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.
Tell the children the truth.
The truth is an offense, but not a sin.
The truth is an offense but not a sin
Is he who laugh last, children! Is he who win
Is a foolish dog bark at a flying bird
One sheep must learn, children! To respect the shepherd
Is he who laugh last, children! Is he who win
Is a foolish dog bark at a flying bird
One sheep must learn, children! To respect the shepherd
Truth quotes by Umberto Eco
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Obsession, Philanthropy, Wisdom, Power, Manipulation, Leadership
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you - do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale?
Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
Truth quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
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Universe, Men, Certainty
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Truth quotes by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Lifesense, Virtue, Purpose, Life, LieTruth quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Humanity, Philosophy, Hypocrisy, Flattery, Happiness, Reality, Delusion
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
Truth quotes by Francis Bacon
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Lie, Time, Authority, Inspiration, Risk, Mistakes, Challenge, Initiative, Action, Confusion
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Truth quotes by Virginia Woolf
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Judgement, Individuality, Thinking, Originality, Work, Laziness, Delusion, Perseverance, Authority
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Let a man get up and say, "Behold, this is the truth", and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
Truth quotes by Joanne Rowling
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Pride, Mistakes, People, Forgiveness, Harry Potter, Belief, Lie
"The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
Truth quotes by Alfred Adler
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Power, Lie, Psychology, Personality, Responsibility
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Truth quotes by Leo Tolstoy
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Wisdom, Simplicity, Great, Lie
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
Truth quotes by Thomas Mann
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Lie, Honesty, GreatTruth quotes by John Steinbeck
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Philosophy, Sin, Virtue, Beauty, Courage
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.
Truth quotes by Graham Greene
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Relationships, Lie, Kindness, Writers, Press, Fiction, JournalisticsTruth quotes by William Faulkner
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Inspiration, Advice, Compassion, Courage, Honesty, Nobility, LieTruth quotes by Joseph Conrad
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Jokes, Humour, Satire, SincerityTruth quotes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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LogicTruth quotes by Herman Melville
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WordsTruth quotes by Ralph Ellison
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Lie, Light
These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the world a lie, they can tell it so well that it becomes the truth; and if I tell them that you’re lying, they’ll tell the world even if you prove you’re telling the truth. Because it’s the kind of lie they want to hear …
Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more and brighter light. The truth is the light and light is the truth.
Truth quotes by Gustave Flaubert
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Reality, Art, LieTruth quotes by Emily Dickinson
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Beauty, Death, Poems
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
I died for beauty but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth, the two are one;
We brethren are," he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names. Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth, the two are one;
We brethren are," he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names. Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.