Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Low, Albert

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bible

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Blake, William

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

Aristotle

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Malcolm X

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Davies, Robertson

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Mark Twain

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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