Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Russell, Utterly

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Wilder, Billy

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Mamet, David

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Confucius

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

West, Jessamyn

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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.

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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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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.

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.