Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Blake, William

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Augustine, St.

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Aristotle

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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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

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

Bible

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Sontag, Susan

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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