Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Churchill, Winston

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Low, Albert

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Bible

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Merzel, David

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Rogers, Will

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Malcolm X

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Barnes, Leonard

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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