Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Gide, Andre

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Fuller, Max

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Merzel, David

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Aristotle

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.