Motivational Quotes

Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

- Agnes Repplier

Best Quotes about Truth

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

William Shakespeare

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

10.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

11.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

12.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

13.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

19.

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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Lennon, John

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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.

34.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Rogers, Will

44.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

49.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln