Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Truth

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sontag, Susan

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

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

10.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

11.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Baldwin, James

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Clarence Darrow

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

29.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Howard, Vernon

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Mamet, David

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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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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 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.

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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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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Camus, Albert

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.