Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lee, Bruce

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Augustine, St.

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

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Mark Twain

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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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 arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Truman, Harry S

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Confucius

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gide, Andre

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.