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

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Stone, W. Clement

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Emre, Yumus

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

11.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Augustine, St.

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Camus, Albert

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo