Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is reality.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Adler, Alfred

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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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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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Wilder, Billy

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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)

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Rostand, Jean

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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