Motivational Quotes

Truth

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Truth

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

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Augustine, St.

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

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Twain, Mark

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Edith Sitwell

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

William Shakespeare

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Cronkite, Walter

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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.