Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

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

Farnham, Eliza

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

William Shakespeare

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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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Hare, J. C.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is 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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Herbert, Frank

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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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

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo