Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Truth

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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

Howard, Vernon

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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 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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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

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Zola, Emile

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

Strachey, Lionel

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