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

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Fuller, Thomas

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

Valery, Paul

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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