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

1.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

2.

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

3.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

4.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

5.

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

Hill, Napoleon

6.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

7.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

9.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Dickens, Charles

11.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Truman, Harry S

13.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

14.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

15.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

17.

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

Brandes, George

18.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

West, Jessamyn

20.

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

Augustine, St.

21.

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

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Davies, Robertson

24.

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

25.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

28.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

29.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

30.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

32.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

33.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

34.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

35.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

36.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

37.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

38.

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

Stone, W. Clement

39.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

Luther, Martin

41.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

42.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

43.

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

Lowell, James Russell

44.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

45.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

46.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

47.

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.

48.

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

Blake, William

49.

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

50.

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

Thatcher, Margaret