Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Davies, Robertson

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Pindar

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

William Shakespeare

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

11.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Kersha, Al

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Brandes, George

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare