Motivational Quotes

Truth

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Aristotle

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Augustine, St.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Edith Sitwell

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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

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

19.

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

Bible

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

21.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Bible

33.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

39.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier