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

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

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

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Blake, William

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

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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 truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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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

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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 is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Churchill, Winston

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.