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

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Berenson, Bernard

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Voltaire

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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.

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

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Mamet, David

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

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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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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Blake, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel