Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Aristotle

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Blake, William

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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 is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Luther, Martin

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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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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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart