Motivational Quotes

Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Renard, Jules

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

12.

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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

18.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

30.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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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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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

34.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Brandes, George

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Rogers, Will

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

50.

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