Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

- Herbert Agar

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Edith Sitwell

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Augustine, St.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Confucius

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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Valery, Paul

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Bible

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Russell, Utterly

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Berlin, Irving