Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Herbert Agar

Best Quotes about Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Dickens, Charles

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Aristotle

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Hare, J. C.

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Low, Albert

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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