Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Smith, Joseph F.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Fuller, Max

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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Frost, Robert

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bach, Richard

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Renard, Jules

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Truth is its own reward.