Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Baldwin, James

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Rostand, Jean

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Lee, Bruce

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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 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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Rosten, Leo

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.