Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bible

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Blake, William

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

Mamet, David

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bach, Richard

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Wilder, Billy

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Voltaire

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Camus, Albert

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.