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

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

Penn, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

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

Berenson, Bernard

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Butler, Samuel

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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 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 idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Aristotle

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.