Motivational Quotes

Truth

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Truth

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Scott Westerfeld

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilder, Billy

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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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

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.