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

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

West, Jessamyn

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

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

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Bible

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Scott Westerfeld

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Blake, William

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.