Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Seabury, David

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

Clarence Darrow

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Rosten, Leo

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Berenson, Bernard

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Blake, William

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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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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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 sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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