Motivational Quotes

Truth

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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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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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

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Renard, Jules

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

Twain, Mark

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Rogers, Will

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence