Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kersha, Al

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Lennon, John

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

Renard, Jules

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Confucius

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Bach, Richard

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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.

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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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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Richards, R. Scott