Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

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

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Confucius

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Low, Albert

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Renard, Jules

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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 truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Sontag, Susan

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Pindar

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.