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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Baldwin, James

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

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)

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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)

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Mark Twain

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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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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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah