Motivational Quotes

Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Mamet, David

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

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Barnes, Leonard

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kersha, Al

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Zola, Emile

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Seabury, David

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

Low, Albert

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde