Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Balfour, Arthur James

Best Quotes about Truth

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Low, Albert

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

Renard, Jules

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Tomlin, Lily

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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)

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.