Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Brandes, George

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Rostand, Jean

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Butler, Samuel

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

13.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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.

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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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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Clarence Darrow

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Rogers, Will

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

Aristotle

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

Luther, Martin

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

48.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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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 is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde