Motivational Quotes

Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Truth

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Davies, Robertson

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

11.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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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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 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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Lennon, John

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Blake, William

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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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