Motivational Quotes

Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

- Ballou, Hosea

Best Quotes about Truth

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rostand, Jean

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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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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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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

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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

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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

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

Truman, Harry S