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

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hill, Napoleon

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Rostand, Jean

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilder, Billy

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Edith Sitwell

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Herbert, Frank

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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

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Rosten, Leo

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Blake, William

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brandes, George

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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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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace