Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Kersha, Al

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.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Hall, Calvin S.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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 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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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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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Renard, Jules

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilder, Billy

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Bible

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Truman, Harry S

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently