Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lennon, John

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Blake, William

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Emre, Yumus

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Baldwin, James

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Hesse, Hermann

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Malcolm X

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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.