Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Aristotle

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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.

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.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Granville, Joseph E.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Howard, Vernon

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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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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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

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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 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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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 so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Herbert, Frank

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Renard, Jules

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais