Motivational Quotes

Truth

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Carrel, Alexis

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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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

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Sontag, Susan

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Blake, William

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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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 ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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