Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hesiod

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

Lewis, C. S.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Blake, William

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Luther, Martin

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Gide, Andre

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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