Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Truth

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

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gordimer, Nadine

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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 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

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

Adler, Alfred

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Dickens, Charles

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Blake, William

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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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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Berlin, Irving

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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

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Renard, Jules

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Low, Albert

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Herbert, Frank

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Baldwin, James

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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.