Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Barnes, Leonard

Best Quotes about Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Clarence Darrow

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Hesse, Hermann

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.