Motivational Quotes

Truth

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Truth

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Gide, Andre

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

Shaw, George Bernard

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Pancoast, Mal

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Rostand, Jean

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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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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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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