Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

- Gwyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Confucius

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Edith Sitwell

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Bible

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Lennon, John

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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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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 not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Diderot, Denis

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Camus, Albert

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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