Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

- Berlin, Irving

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Truman, Harry S

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

10.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Middleton, Owen C.

25.

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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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rogers, Will

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.