Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Rosten, Leo

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

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Luther, Martin

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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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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Brandes, George

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

Confucius

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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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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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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

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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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 strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Augustine, St.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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