Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Merzel, David

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Seabury, David

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dickens, Charles

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

25.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

29.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Blake, William

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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 is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Aristotle