Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Bible

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Richards, R. Scott

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Malcolm X

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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