Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Kersha, Al

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Bible

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Blake, William

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.