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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Epictetus

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

Confucius

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Wilder, Billy

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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.