Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Epictetus

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Hamilton, Sir William

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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 true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

11.

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

12.

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

Tom Bissell

13.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Davies, Robertson

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Zola, Emile

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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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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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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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

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Rosten, Leo

28.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

31.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

34.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

41.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

42.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

43.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea