Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Russell, Utterly

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Blake, William

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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 makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Mann, Horace

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Truman, Harry S

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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 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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Kahlil Gibran

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Lennon, John

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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 TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Pindar

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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 stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.