Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

- Tom Stoppard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

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

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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)

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

Kersha, Al

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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 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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Dickens, Charles

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Aristotle

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.