Motivational Quotes

Truth

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Valery, Paul

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.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Rogers, Will

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Whately, Richard

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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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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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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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Low, Albert

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas