Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Truth

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Scott Westerfeld

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Renard, Jules

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

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

10.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

12.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Blake, William

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wilder, Billy

21.

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

Penn, William

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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

23.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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.

25.

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

26.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

27.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

28.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

30.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

32.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

33.

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

Richards, R. Scott

34.

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

35.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

37.

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Scott Westerfeld

42.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

43.

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.

44.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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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

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Confucius

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.