Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Best Quotes about Truth

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Stone, W. Clement

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

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

Bach, Richard

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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

11.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

12.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

13.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Blake, William

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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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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

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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

23.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Blake, William

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

30.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

31.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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

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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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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

36.

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

Seabury, David

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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

42.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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