Motivational Quotes

Truth

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)

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Norris, Frank

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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 arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Zola, Emile

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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 persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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 is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Seabury, David

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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Blake, William

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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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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

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

Lee, Bruce