Motivational Quotes

Truth

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)

Best Quotes about Truth

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Augustine, St.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Berenson, Bernard

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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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 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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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 is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Baldwin, James

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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 first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

41.

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

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca