Truth Quotes

• There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Believe, Ignorance

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• Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Devotion, Sole, Existence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.45, Oxford University Press

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• The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Political, Catholic

  "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)

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• Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Contradiction, Mathematics, Contradicting

  "Bare Facts and Naked Truths: A New Correspondence Theory of Truth". Book by George Englebretsen (p. 153), 2006.

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  Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophy, Too Late, Leviathan

  Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."

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• If I'm using Nonviolent Communication I never, never, never hear what somebody thinks about me. Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. You'll enjoy life more. Hear the truth. The truth is that when somebody's telling you what's wrong with you, the truth is they have a need that isn't getting met. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear the analysis.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

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• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Peace, Fear

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.471, Best Books on

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• The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

  Rebecca West

  Simple, Men, Forget

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Meaning of Treason”, p.426, Open Road Media

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• If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, God, Christian

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Men, Sickness

  "Of the Geometrical Spirit". Book by Blaise Pascal, 2015.

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  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Fear

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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• Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

  W. Clement Stone

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Understanding

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• Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.

  George MacDonald

  Spiritual, Soul, Facts

  George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.676, e-artnow

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

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Business, Teaching

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• An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Failure

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black

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• Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

  Maxim Gorky

  Lying, Men, Slave

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• Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

  Tertullian

  Hatred, Enemy

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• Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

  Simone Weil

  Crush, Men, Thinking

  Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

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• Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Men, Individuality

  H. G. Wells (2000). “Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church”, p.15, Book Tree

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• Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Funny, Giving

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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• Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

  Giordano Bruno

  People, Majority, Doe

  "Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 - 1600". Book by Coulson Turnbull, 1913.

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  Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

  William Faulkner

  Honesty, Lying, Compassion

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• The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

  Edith Sitwell

  Believe, Media Control, Long

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Light, Darkness

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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