Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Truth

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Galileo Galilei

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bible

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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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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Gide, Andre

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin