Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Brandes, George

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bible

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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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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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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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.

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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 great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest