Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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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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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 always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Davies, Robertson

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Malcolm X

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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 are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Luther, Martin

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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 is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Mamet, David

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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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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