Motivational Quotes

Truth

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Luther, Martin

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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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

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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

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Norris, Frank

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Renard, Jules

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Herbert, Frank

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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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 criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Brandes, George

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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.