Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Strachey, Lionel

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Butler, Samuel

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Confucius

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Mark Twain

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

25.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, 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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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 know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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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

44.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gide, Andre

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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

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

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