Motivational Quotes

Truth

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Edith Sitwell

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Lennon, John

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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 great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord