Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Merzel, David

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Confucius

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Dickens, Charles

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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.