Motivational Quotes

Truth

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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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

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Augustine, St.

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.