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300+ Best Truth Quotes About Truth And Lies | quotes On Truth
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. -Mahatma Gandhi
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. -Khalil Gibran
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. -Mahatma Gandhi
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -John F. Kennedy
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world. -Muhammad Ali
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. -Thomas Jefferson
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. -Mahatma Gandhi
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. -Blaise Pascal
Quotes about truth
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world. -Thomas Jefferson
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. -Thomas Jefferson
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. -Mahatma Gandhi
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. -Thomas Jefferson
Quotes about truth and liesIgnorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. -Thomas Jefferson
Quotes about truth and lies
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. -Thomas Jefferson
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. -Winston Churchill
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. -Winston Churchill
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. -Maya Angelou
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. -W. Clement Stone
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. -Mahatma Gandhi
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t. -Mark Twain
Life truth quotes
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow. -Friedrich Nietzsche
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. -Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. -Friedrich Nietzsche
(Truth quotes)Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. -Friedrich Nietzsche
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. -Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves. -Marilyn Monroe
All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie? -Friedrich Nietzsche
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth of life quote
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. -Aesop
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder. -Lao Tzu
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. -Aristotle
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. -George Carlin
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. -Friedrich Nietzsche
The object of the superior man is truth. -Confucius
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. -Harry S. Truman
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. -Henry David Thoreau
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. -Khalil Gibran
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. -Aristotle
Quotes on truth
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. -Aristotle
We have art in order not to die of the truth. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. -Khalil Gibran
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. -Chanakya
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’ -Khalil Gibran
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Telling the truth quotesTruth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Telling the truth quotes
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. -Plato
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor. -Coco Chanel
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. -Adlai E. Stevenson
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. -Will Rogers
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’. -Dan Rather
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. -Deepak Chopra
Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music. -Jimi Hendrix
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. -Will Rogers
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone. -Robert Kiyosaki
A 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. -Max Planck
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. -Michelle Obama
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. -Vladimir Lenin
We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square. -Michelle Obama
The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. -Bill Cosby(Truth quotes)
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. -John Locke
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. -Ayn Rand
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. -Albert Camus
Live truth instead of professing it. -Elbert Hubbard
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. -Albert Camus
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. -George Bernard Shaw
speak the truth quotes
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. -Hannah Arendt
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. -Jim Rohn
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. -Alan Watts
Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. -Tom Hanks
I’m supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I’ve flunked more often than not. I’m very fond of women I admire them. But, like all men, I don’t understand them. -Frank Sinatra
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. -George Bernard Shaw
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. -Tony Robbins
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. -Henry David Thoreau
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. -Anais Nin
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. -James Allen
Quotes truthArt is a lie that makes us realize truth. -Pablo Picasso
Quotes truth
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. -Pablo Picasso
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history. -Mitt Romney
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. -Ismail Haniyeh
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child. -Michael Jackson
The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? -E. O. Wilson
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. -Voltaire
