Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Emre, Yumus

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

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

Zola, Emile

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

Brandes, George

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

11.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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 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.

23.

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

Twain, Mark

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Bach, Richard

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

28.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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 knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Butler, Samuel

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.