Motivational Quotes

Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

- Liebig

Best Quotes about Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Mann, Horace

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Aristotle

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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: 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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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