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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Dickens, Charles

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Fuller, Max

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

Blake, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rogers, Will

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Augustine, St.

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Truman, Harry S

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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

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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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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton