Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Barnes, Leonard

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Camus, Albert

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Darrow, Clarence

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Emre, Yumus

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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