Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is more important than the facts.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Herbert, Frank

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Fuller, Max

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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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

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Berlin, Irving

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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

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Butler, Samuel

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Lennon, John

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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.

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

Sontag, Susan

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce