Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Renard, Jules

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Walters, Hellmut

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

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

12.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

21.

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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bible

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Herbert, Frank

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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 always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne