Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Sontag, Susan

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Joubert, Joseph

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Luther, Martin

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

Twain, Mark

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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