Motivational Quotes

Truth

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Truth

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Stone, W. Clement

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Aristotle

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Bach, Richard

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Pancoast, Mal

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee