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

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Wilder, Billy

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Blake, William

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Herbert, Frank

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Blake, William

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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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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

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Rogers, Will

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.