Motivational Quotes

Truth

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

- Sockman, Ralph W.

Best Quotes about Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Aristotle

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

William Shakespeare

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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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 fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Bach, Richard

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Zola, Emile

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Bible

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hare, J. C.

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.