Motivational Quotes

Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

- Agnes Repplier

Best Quotes about Truth

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

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Farnham, Eliza

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

11.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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

29.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Twain, Mark

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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