Motivational Quotes

Truth

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

- Strachey, Lionel

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Galileo Galilei

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Blake, William

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Hare, J. C.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Fuller, Max

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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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