Motivational Quotes

Truth

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

- Tom Bissell

Best Quotes about Truth

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Epictetus

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Davies, Robertson

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Clarence Darrow

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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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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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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 a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Kersha, Al

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

Camus, Albert

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.