Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Tomlin, Lily

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Bach, Richard

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

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

10.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Malcolm X

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

28.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Confucius

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Luther, Martin

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Scott Westerfeld

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Camus, Albert