Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Emre, Yumus

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

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

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Augustine, St.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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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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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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 most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

34.

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

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Luther, Martin

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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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.