Motivational Quotes

Truth

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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)

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lennon, John

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

Low, Albert

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine