Motivational Quotes

Truth

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Howard, Vernon

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Augustine, St.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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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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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Renard, Jules

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

Malcolm X

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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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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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 is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard