Motivational Quotes

Truth

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

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

Merzel, David

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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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

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Mamet, David

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Renard, Jules

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Stone, W. Clement

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.