Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Lennon, John

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Malcolm X

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

William Shakespeare

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

32.

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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Baldwin, James

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Rosten, Leo

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Hesse, Hermann

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