Motivational Quotes

Truth

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Galileo Galilei

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth and virtue conquer.

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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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 disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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]

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

Confucius

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kersha, Al

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Strachey, Lionel

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Davies, Robertson

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

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