Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Lewis, C. S.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Adler, Alfred

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

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Kersha, Al

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Rogers, Will

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Edith Sitwell

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Joubert, Joseph

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Blake, William

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis