Motivational Quotes

Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Rostand, Jean

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Birmingham, Wayne

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Augustine, St.

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kahlil Gibran

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Confucius

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Mann, Horace

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Fuller, Max

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb