Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Mamet, David

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.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

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

Low, Albert

11.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

12.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

13.

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

Scott Westerfeld

14.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

16.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

17.

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

18.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

19.

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

Edith Sitwell

20.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

21.

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

Clarence Darrow

22.

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

28.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

29.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

31.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

32.

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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Joubert, Joseph

40.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

41.

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.

42.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

43.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

44.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

45.

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

Aristotle

46.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stone, W. Clement

48.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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

Hamilton, Sir William