Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Fuller, Max

Best Quotes about Truth

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Norris, Frank

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

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

Lennon, John

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Twain, Mark

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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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 is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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

Seabury, David

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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