Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Twain, Mark

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

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.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Edith Sitwell

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bible

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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 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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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.

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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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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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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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.