Motivational Quotes

Truth

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Hesse, Hermann

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Renard, Jules

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

11.

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

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lowell, James Russell

14.

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 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 may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

20.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

21.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Pancoast, Mal

25.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Mamet, David

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Baldwin, James

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Truth is always the strongest argument.