Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Whately, Richard

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Gide, Andre

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Lennon, John

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

11.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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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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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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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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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Clarence Darrow

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

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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 are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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.