Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Mamet, David

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Dickens, Charles

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Confucius

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Hesiod

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Renard, Jules

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Cronkite, Walter