Motivational Quotes

Truth

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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 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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Renard, Jules

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

Twain, Mark

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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 is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aristotle

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Tomlin, Lily

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare