Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Lennon, John

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Farnham, Eliza

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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

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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Edith Sitwell

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Herbert, Frank

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