Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Confucius

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Lennon, John

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Kersha, Al

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Blake, William

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rogers, Will

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Rosten, Leo

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)