Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Davies, Robertson

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Strachey, Lionel

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Twain, Mark

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish