Motivational Quotes

Truth

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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

Twain, Mark

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.