Motivational Quotes

Truth

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

- Smith, Joseph F.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Mark Twain

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Howard, Vernon

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Lennon, John

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Bible

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Zola, Emile

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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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