Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

11.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

12.

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

Scott Westerfeld

13.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

14.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

15.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

16.

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

Lennon, John

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

19.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

22.

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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

25.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

26.

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

27.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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 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)

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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

33.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

35.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Mamet, David

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

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.

40.

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

Camus, Albert

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.