Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

- Quesnel, Pasquier

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Mamet, David

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.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

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

William Shakespeare

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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 truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Lennon, John

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Howard, Vernon

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Malcolm X

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

Brandes, George

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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal