Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Pascal, Blaise

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

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

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Zola, Emile

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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Kersha, Al

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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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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Lee, Bruce