Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

- Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Best Quotes about Truth

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Camus, Albert

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Davies, Robertson

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

10.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

11.

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

Renard, Jules

12.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

13.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

15.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

16.

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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

19.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

21.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

22.

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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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

26.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

27.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

28.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

29.

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

Farnham, Eliza

30.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

31.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

38.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Truman, Harry S

40.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

42.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

43.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

44.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Epictetus

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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