Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Rogers, Will

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Rosten, Leo

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Edith Sitwell

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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 never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Malcolm X

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

32.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

34.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

35.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

37.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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.

45.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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