Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bach, Richard

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Walters, Hellmut

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Aristotle

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Bible

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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

Low, Albert

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Mamet, David

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

Lennon, John

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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