Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hare, J. C.

Best Quotes about Truth

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Blake, William

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

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

Lee, Bruce

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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 often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Aristotle

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Aristotle

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

Augustine, St.

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Howard, Vernon

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Halifax, Edward F.