Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

- Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Truman, Harry S

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Mamet, David

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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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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

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Kersha, Al

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard