Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is true belongs to me!

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hesse, Hermann

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Kahlil Gibran

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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.

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

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

Hamilton, Sir William

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Zola, Emile

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Renard, Jules

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Lennon, John

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Aristotle

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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William