Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Blake, William

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Stone, W. Clement

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Russell, Utterly

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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 on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Brandes, George

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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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

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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