Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Truth

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lee, Bruce

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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 is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis