Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

- Matthew Arnold

Best Quotes about Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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 isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Aristotle

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

Emre, Yumus

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Valery, Paul

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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]

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