Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Emre, Yumus

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Zola, Emile

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Penn, William

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Seabury, David

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Tom Bissell

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

17.

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

Scott Westerfeld

18.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

32.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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 a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood