Motivational Quotes

Truth

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Truth

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Churchill, Winston

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Scott Westerfeld

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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

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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah