Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

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

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Merzel, David

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Camus, Albert

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

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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 truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

33.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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)