Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Brandes, George

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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 great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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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

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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.