Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Middleton, Owen C.

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Middleton, Owen C.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Rogers, Will

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Bible

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Mann, Horace

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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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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pancoast, Mal

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.