Motivational Quotes

Truth

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Epictetus

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

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Blake, William

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bible

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Aristotle

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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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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Sontag, Susan

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Clarence Darrow

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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.