Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Aristotle

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.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Camus, Albert

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Confucius

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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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)

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

Truman, Harry S

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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