Motivational Quotes

Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Edith Sitwell

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Dickinson, Emily

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Confucius

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

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Mamet, David

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Lennon, John

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

Davies, Robertson

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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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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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

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.