Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Richards, R. Scott

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bible

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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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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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Camus, Albert

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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