Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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)

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.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Blake, William

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

Emre, Yumus

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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 any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Luther, Martin

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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

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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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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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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin