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

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Norris, Frank

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

Edith Sitwell

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Renard, Jules

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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Truman, Harry S

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gide, Andre

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.