Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Churchill, Winston

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Adler, Alfred

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

17.

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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Mamet, David

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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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 is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Low, Albert

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

William Shakespeare

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

Butler, Samuel

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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