Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

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

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Confucius

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

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.

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

Aristotle

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Seabury, David

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dickinson, Emily

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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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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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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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Camus, Albert

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

43.

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

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Butler, Samuel

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rosten, Leo

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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