Motivational Quotes

Truth

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

- Sockman, Ralph W.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Davies, Robertson

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

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

11.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

17.

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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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 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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Renard, Jules

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bach, Richard

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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