Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Herbert, Frank

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

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

Tom Bissell

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Blake, William

10.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

11.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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

21.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

22.

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

Mamet, David

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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 truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

33.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

34.

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

Wilder, Billy

35.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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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

40.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

41.

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

42.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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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 found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.