Motivational Quotes

Truth

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

10.

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

11.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

14.

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

Aristotle

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

Blake, William

16.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

18.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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 something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Malcolm X

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

25.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Aristotle

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

Darrow, Clarence

30.

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

31.

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

Camus, Albert

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

33.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

34.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

35.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

42.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

45.

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 is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David