Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Valery, Paul

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

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cronkite, Walter

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rostand, Jean

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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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)