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

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

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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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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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

35.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

36.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kahlil Gibran

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