Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

- Matthew Arnold

Best Quotes about Truth

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Bible

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Davies, Robertson

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

12.

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

Mamet, David

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

Valery, Paul

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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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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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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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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Rogers, Will

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.