Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is true belongs to me!

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Truth

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Stone, W. Clement

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Davies, Robertson

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan