Motivational Quotes

Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

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

Kersha, Al

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Butler, Samuel

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Russell, Utterly

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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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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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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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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

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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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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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

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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

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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