Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Truth

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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

Penn, William

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

Bible

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

William Shakespeare

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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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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 is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma