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Discover forty-two insightful truth quotes to inspire you to deepen your perception of reality while trying to understand your life conditions.
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Insightful Truth Quotes to Inspire you
Here are 42 insightful truth quotes to inspire you:
What is truth Quotes
“Aletheia” is the Greek word for truth and it has been used from ancient times to nowadays. Its literal meaning is what is not being hidden and it implies both factuality and sincerity. To be true is to be sincere with the facts; with what actually is happening. This sounds so simple to define and so easy to follow. Yet, our brain sometimes sets up obstacles, consciously or unconsciously, to prevent this truth be revealed.
- “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” – Buddha
- “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” – Elvis Presley
- “Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.” – Francis Bacon
- “Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- “Truth is powerful and it prevails.” – Sojourner Truth
- “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
- “The truth is bitter, but its taste is sweet.” – Hazrat Ali
- “Truth is mighty and will prevail.” – Thomas Brooks
- “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” – Oscar Wilde
- “The truth will out.” – William Shakespeare
- “Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.” – Ice Cube
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When People lie
Robert Trivers, a professor in anthropology and biological sciences, in his book Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself The Better Fool Others, seeks the causes of deception and self-deception in many aspects: evolutionary logic, nature, neurophysiology, immunology, psychology, history, war, religion, etc. He concludes that we often concede to self-deception because in this way it’s easier to deceive others.
- “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” – Isaac Newton
- “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde
- “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – Flannery O’Connor
- “The truth doesn’t change. It was true when it happened, it’s true today, and it’ll be true tomorrow.” – Jodi Picoult
- “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Winston Churchill
- “The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is.” – Winston Churchill
- “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” – William Blake
- “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain
- “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” – Aldous Huxley
Interpreting the World Inaccurately
Many studies and research have been conducted on lying, deceit, and self-deception. Why you lie and the ways you deceive; why you make stories to justify your choices and deeds; why you receive selective information; why you hide, even from ourselves, some things behind the realm of unconsciousness; why you interpret the world around you inaccurately, although your senses are made to receive information as it is.
- “The truth must dazzle gradually, or every man be blind.” – Emily Dickinson
- “Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.” – Swami Vivekananda
- “Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.” – Claude Adrien Helvétius
- “Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.” – Osho
- “The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.” – Veronica Roth
- “The truth is more important than the facts.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
- “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” – Aldous Huxley
- “The truth is lived, not taught.” – Hermann Hesse
- “Truth never damages a cause that is just.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.” – William Shakespeare
- “Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
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Truth Will Set You Free
Evolutionary trait, competitive edge, social convention, psychological illness, fear of any kind, no matter what a lie is, offers only a short-term easiness. Nothing remains hidden under the sun (Greek maxim). And, if we can’t be truthful all the time, we can at least be aware of it and its consequences.
- “The truth will set you free.” – John 8:32
- “The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.” – Clarence Darrow
- “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
- “Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.” – Stephanie Klein
- “The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.” – George Santayana
- “Seek truth and you will find a path.” – Frank Slaughter
- “Truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill
- “The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we’re afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we’ll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.” – Richard Bach
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References Trivers Robert, Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself The Better Fool Others, Penguin (London), 2013. aletheia – wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aletheia Robert Trivers – roberttrivers.com