Motivational Quotes

Truth

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Blake, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bible

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Camus, Albert

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Seabury, David

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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 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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles