Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

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Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hall, Calvin S.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Low, Albert

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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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.

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Rosten, Leo

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Kahlil Gibran