Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Aristotle

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Adler, Alfred

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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 pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Mark Twain