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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

11.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

13.

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

Wilder, Billy

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

15.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

17.

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

18.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

19.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

20.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

21.

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

Pindar

22.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Gide, Andre

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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.

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Blake, William

34.

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

35.

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

Truman, Harry S

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

42.

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

Zola, Emile

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

Seabury, David

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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.