Motivational Quotes

Truth

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Truth

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Aristotle

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Lee, Bruce

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Twain, Mark

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

Howard, Vernon

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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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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 is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Low, Albert

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

Cronkite, Walter

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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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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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.