Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Mamet, David

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Blake, William

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Russell, Utterly

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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 truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Camus, Albert

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mark Twain