Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Pancoast, Mal

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Russell, Utterly

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Gide, Andre

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

Twain, Mark

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Seabury, David

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Aristotle

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

Renard, Jules

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Adler, Alfred

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Epictetus

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

Howard, Vernon

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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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 truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William