Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Truth

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Bible

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Edith Sitwell

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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 often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Aristotle

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Aristotle

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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 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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Truman, Harry S

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