Motivational Quotes

Truth

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Truth

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

Lee, Bruce

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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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 basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Zola, Emile

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Walters, Hellmut

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.