Motivational Quotes

Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Truth

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Luther, Martin

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Howard, Vernon

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

42.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.