Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Low, Albert

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Strachey, Lionel

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Blake, William

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Pindar

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

Blake, William

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

Mamet, David

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

West, Jessamyn

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Rosten, Leo

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Aristotle

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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.