Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Voltaire

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Zola, Emile

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Butler, Samuel

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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