Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

- Norris, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

10.

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

Zola, Emile

11.

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

William Shakespeare

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Sontag, Susan

18.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Davies, Robertson

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

23.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

25.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Malcolm X

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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

28.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

30.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

32.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

33.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

40.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

41.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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.

Pindar

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

Penn, William

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.