Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Stone, W. Clement

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

Blake, William

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Blake, William

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish