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

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Granville, Joseph E.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Camus, Albert

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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 god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

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

Seabury, David

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

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Valery, Paul

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin