Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Granville, Joseph E.

Best Quotes about Truth

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Truman, Harry S

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stone, W. Clement

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Baldwin, James

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Low, Albert

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Renard, Jules

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

Edith Sitwell

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

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

Howard, Vernon

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.