Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Kersha, Al

Best Quotes about Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Epictetus

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

Twain, Mark

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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 pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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 truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

W. Somerset Maugham