Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Herbert Agar

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

Renard, Jules

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Epictetus

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Berenson, Bernard

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Twain, Mark

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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