Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Rosten, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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