Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Galileo Galilei

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Merzel, David

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

Clarence Darrow

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Low, Albert

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Twain, Mark

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Rosten, Leo

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Camus, Albert

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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