Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Dickens, Charles

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Baldwin, James

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

43.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.