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125 Quotes on Truth
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Buddha
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
Warren Buffett
It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
Albert Camus
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
Miguel de Cervantes
Well, there's a remedy for all things except death.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Coco Chanel
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us.
Paulo Coelho
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
When you know a thing, hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, allow that you do not know it. This is knowledge.
Confucius
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Dalai Lama
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You become responsible forever for what you've tamed.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne W. Dyer
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne W. Dyer
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
Error is also fine, as long as we don't stay in it.
Theodor Fontane
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges.
Anatole France
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.
Bill Gates
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
Steve Jobs
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
We see things not as they are, but as we are.
Immanuel Kant
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
The first condition of immortality is death.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Think before you think.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Have you noticed that the easiest people to get along with are those who agree with you?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything — and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Nelson Mandela
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
George Orwell
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
William Shakespeare
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Mark Twain
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Voltaire
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
I can resist anything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde