Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Blake, William

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Truman, Harry S