Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Herbert Agar

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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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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

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

Lennon, John

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Davies, Robertson

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Blake, William