Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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.

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

Gide, Andre

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.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Clarence Darrow

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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Renard, Jules

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Mamet, David

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Aristotle

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

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

Lee, Bruce