Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

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.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

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

Einstein, Albert

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Luther, Martin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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

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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

25.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Baldwin, James

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

35.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

36.

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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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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

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Birmingham, Wayne