Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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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 can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Bible

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Mamet, David

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

Bach, Richard

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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