Motivational Quotes

Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Blake, William

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

Epictetus

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rosten, Leo

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Barnes, Leonard