Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

- Berlin, Irving

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Seabury, David

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Walters, Hellmut

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

Barnes, Leonard

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Herbert Agar

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

21.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Valery, Paul

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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Aristotle

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

Davies, Robertson

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret