Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Rosten, Leo

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Scott Westerfeld

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Low, Albert

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

Bible

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Gide, Andre

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

Dickinson, Emily

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.