Motivational Quotes

Truth

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Truth

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, 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 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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Emre, Yumus

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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 is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee