Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Barnes, Leonard

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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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.

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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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 truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Bible

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

43.

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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Blake, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel