Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hare, J. C.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Zola, Emile

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Valery, Paul

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Penn, William

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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Blake, William

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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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 fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De