Truth Is Quotes - Page 2

• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Truth, Children, Lying

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• There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Truth, Moon, Long

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• Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Honesty, Ignorance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Inspiration, Prevailing

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Truth is mighty and will prevail

  Thomas Brooks

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

  Aristotle

  Truth, Honesty, Ethics

  Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

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• The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.90

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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Dog, Truth, Errors

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• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Football, Truth, Lying

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.5.

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• It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Inspirational Life, Fiction

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• The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Truth, Curiosity, Precious Possessions

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• A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Faith, Truth, Regret

  "The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur Clark, 1951.

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• Truth is the daughter of time.

  Aulus Gellius

  Life, Daughter, Truth

  Aulus Gellius (1795). “The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius”, p.358

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• The Truth is the Truth.

  Max Weber

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  A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Dog, Religious

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• Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Wisdom, Truth, Quests

  Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”

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• I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Speech in Holland, 3 Aug. 1929, in Lilly Heber Krishnamurti (1931) ch. 2

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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.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Science, Air

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.38

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• Truth is what stands the test of experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Funny Inspirational, Truth

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.452, Princeton University Press

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• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Honesty, Libel

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• "Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Practice

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda".

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• All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta”, p.49, Advaita Ashrama

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