Motivational Quotes

Truth

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

West, Jessamyn

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Hemingway, Ernest

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Epictetus

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

Luther, Martin

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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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]

Bible

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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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Brandes, George

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

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

Renard, Jules

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich