Motivational Quotes

Truth

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Darrow, Clarence

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Russell, Utterly

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Galileo Galilei

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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

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

Aristotle

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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 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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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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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Truth is always the strongest argument.