Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Truth

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lewis, C. S.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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

11.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

12.

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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

20.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Kersha, Al

22.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Augustine, St.

29.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Gide, Andre

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

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei