Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Rogers, Will

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Zola, Emile

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Bible

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert