Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Lewis, C. S.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Hare, J. C.

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Bach, Richard

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Baldwin, James

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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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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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

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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