Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Confucius

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

Hesse, Hermann

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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

11.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

12.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

17.

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

18.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

19.

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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Luther, Martin

24.

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

Bach, Richard

25.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

26.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

27.

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

Blake, William

30.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

31.

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

Kersha, Al

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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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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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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

36.

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

Camus, Albert

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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