Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

- Gwyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Truth

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Barnes, Leonard

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.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Clarence Darrow

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Augustine, St.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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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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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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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 no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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 basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Lennon, John

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bible

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

39.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous