Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Wilder, Billy

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Low, Albert

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Gibran, Kahlil

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Richards, R. Scott

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Gide, Andre

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Epictetus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Zola, Emile

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Berlin, Irving

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.