Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Zola, Emile

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

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Pancoast, Mal

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Baldwin, James

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Camus, Albert

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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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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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas