Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Norris, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Sontag, Susan

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Smith, Joseph F.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Hesiod

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Malcolm X

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Luther, Martin

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

Aristotle

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.