Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Camus, Albert

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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Lennon, John

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Blake, William

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

Luther, Martin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Blake, William

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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

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Kersha, Al

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis