Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Truth

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Truman, Harry S

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Twain, Mark

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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Kersha, Al

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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 arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Davies, Robertson

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Fuller, Max

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

42.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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