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 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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Aristotle

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

Blake, William

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Low, Albert

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

Truman, Harry S

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Edith Sitwell

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Herbert, Frank

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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.

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.