Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Truman, Harry S

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Blake, William

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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 often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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 makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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

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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 more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig