Motivational Quotes

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.

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Best Quotes about Truth

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Gordimer, Nadine

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Malcolm X

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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 truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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 incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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

Lennon, John

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Stone, W. Clement

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

West, Jessamyn

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.