Motivational Quotes

Truth

A half truth is a whole lie.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

10.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

11.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

12.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

13.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

18.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

20.

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

Russell, Utterly

21.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

25.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

31.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.