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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Blake, William

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hesiod

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Gide, Andre

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

Clarence Darrow

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

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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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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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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Luther, Martin

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

Strachey, Lionel

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Augustine, St.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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