Motivational Quotes

Truth

A half truth is a whole lie.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Truth

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Birmingham, Wayne

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

23.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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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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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 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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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.

39.

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Low, Albert

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Zola, Emile

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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