Motivational Quotes

Truth

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

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

Birmingham, Wayne

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

Davies, Robertson

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Herbert, Frank

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Whately, Richard

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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 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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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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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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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Fuller, Max

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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 is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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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