Motivational Quotes

Truth

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

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

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

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Seabury, David

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Rogers, Will

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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.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Aristotle

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

Blake, William

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Middleton, Owen C.