Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Truth

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Adler, Alfred

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Truman, Harry S

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Malcolm X

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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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.

Brittain, Vera

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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 only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily