Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Augustine, St.

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Merzel, David

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Malcolm X

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Renard, Jules

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Herbert Agar

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Low, Albert

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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.