Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Renard, Jules

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

Berlin, Irving

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Blake, William

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Twain, Mark

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rosten, Leo

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Gide, Andre

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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

Tom Bissell

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Mamet, David

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

Tomlin, Lily

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Penn, William