Motivational Quotes

Truth

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Truth

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mann, Horace

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

Strachey, Lionel

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

10.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

11.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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 true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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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

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

Blake, William

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

38.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

40.

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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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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 does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Kahlil Gibran

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.