Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Tomlin, Lily

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Baldwin, James

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Howard, Vernon

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Camus, Albert

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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 on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Twain, Mark

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels