Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Bible

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

Scott Westerfeld

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Mamet, David

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Camus, Albert

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

Granville, Joseph E.

30.

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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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Rosten, Leo

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann