Motivational Quotes

Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

- Agnes Repplier

Best Quotes about Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

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

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

Adler, Alfred

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Clarence Darrow

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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

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

Blake, William

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

Camus, Albert

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

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Truman, Harry S

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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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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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

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn