Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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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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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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Augustine, St.

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Twain, Mark

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Tom Bissell

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Herbert, Frank

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

26.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Bach, Richard

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore