Motivational Quotes

Truth

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

- Emre, Yumus

Best Quotes about Truth

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Fuller, Max

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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