Motivational Quotes

Truth

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Berenson, Bernard

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Camus, Albert

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Emre, Yumus

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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

Augustine, St.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Baldwin, James

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Pancoast, Mal

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Twain, Mark

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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.

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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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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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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Howard, Vernon

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Gide, Andre

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Renard, Jules

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire