Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lee, Bruce

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Cronkite, Walter

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Seabury, David

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Butler, Samuel

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mamet, David

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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 truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hare, J. C.