Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Truth

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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)

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Seabury, David

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Augustine, St.

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Galileo Galilei

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Rostand, Jean

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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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 a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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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]

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