Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Herbert Agar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

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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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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

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Augustine, St.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Rosten, Leo

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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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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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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mamet, David

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Twain, Mark

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.