Motivational Quotes

Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mamet, David

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Camus, Albert

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

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

Kersha, Al

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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