Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

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.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rogers, Will

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Butler, Samuel

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Russell, Utterly

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Luther, Martin

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam