Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Augustine, St.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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, 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

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Darrow, Clarence

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Twain, Mark

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Mamet, David

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Dickens, Charles

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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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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