Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Rostand, Jean

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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.

Lynes, Russell

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

Pancoast, Mal

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zola, Emile

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Lee, Bruce

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Davies, Robertson

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Bible

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Herbert Agar

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

Penn, William

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis