Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is reality.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Dickens, Charles

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Malcolm X

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

Brandes, George

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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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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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gide, Andre

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rostand, Jean

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde