Motivational Quotes

Truth

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Lee, Bruce

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Howard, Vernon

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi