Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Augustine, St.

10.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

11.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Howard, Vernon

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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 is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Camus, Albert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Joubert, Joseph

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Walters, Hellmut

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth alone wounds.