Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Halifax, Edward F.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Luther, Martin

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

Voltaire

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Kahlil Gibran

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Herbert, Frank

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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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Bacon, Francis

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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 disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah