Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Twain, Mark

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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.

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

Hesiod

10.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

11.

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

Howard, Vernon

12.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

13.

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

Wilder, Billy

14.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

20.

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

22.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

30.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

32.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

33.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Pancoast, Mal

35.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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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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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

39.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

40.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

41.

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 is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Mamet, David

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

Seabury, David

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander