Motivational Quotes

Truth

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Truth

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Barnes, Leonard

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Gide, Andre

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Seabury, David

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

34.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Low, Albert

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

William Shakespeare

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.