Motivational Quotes

Truth

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Mann, Horace

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

39.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton