Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Quesnel, Pasquier

Best Quotes about Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Mamet, David

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Augustine, St.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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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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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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.

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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)