Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Renard, Jules

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Hemingway, Ernest

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Augustine, St.

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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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 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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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Seabury, David

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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

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

Epictetus

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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