Motivational Quotes

Truth

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Lennon, John

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Twain, Mark

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Aristotle

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bach, Richard

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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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 not determined by majority vote.