Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

- Gwyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Truth

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dickinson, Emily

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Renard, Jules

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seabury, David

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Davies, Robertson

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Norris, Frank

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Berenson, Bernard

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Augustine, St.

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Zola, Emile

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo