Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hare, J. C.

Best Quotes about Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Rostand, Jean

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Blake, William

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Zola, Emile

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Davies, Robertson

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Rogers, Will

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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