Motivational Quotes

Truth

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Truth

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Lennon, John

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

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Bradley, Francis H.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Renard, Jules

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Walters, Hellmut

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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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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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Zola, Emile

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann