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

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Low, Albert

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mamet, David

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Lennon, John

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

Malcolm X

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Mark Twain