Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Truth

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Twain, Mark

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Whately, Richard

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Blake, William

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

29.

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.

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

36.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Adler, Alfred

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.