Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Mark Twain

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

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

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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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