Motivational Quotes

Truth

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Rosten, Leo

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Rogers, Will

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Gide, Andre

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Voltaire

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Bible

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

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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 is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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