Motivational Quotes

Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

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

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Luther, Martin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace