Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Camus, Albert

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

Blake, William

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Luther, Martin

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Twain, Mark