Motivational Quotes

Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Berlin, Irving

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Zola, Emile

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

Twain, Mark

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Blake, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Malcolm X

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cronkite, Walter

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham