Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Twain, Mark

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Blake, William

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dickens, Charles

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Bach, Richard

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Blake, William

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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What is true belongs to me!