Motivational Quotes

Truth

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

- Stevens, Wallace

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fuller, Max

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lennon, John

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Wilder, Billy

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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 is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon