Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Whately, Richard

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Middleton, Owen C.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Penn, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Pancoast, Mal

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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