Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Bible

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Sontag, Susan

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

10.

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

Barnes, Leonard

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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)

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Camus, Albert

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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