Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bible

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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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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 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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Augustine, St.

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Berlin, Irving

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter