Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Howard, Vernon

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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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

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Bible

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Churchill, Winston

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Davies, Robertson

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Malcolm X