Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Twain, Mark

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.