Motivational Quotes

Truth

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Truth

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Twain, Mark

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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 a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Whately, Richard

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rosten, Leo

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert