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

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

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Davies, Robertson

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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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 is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Voltaire

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Blake, William

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Truman, Harry S

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Lennon, John

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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