Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Howard, Vernon

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Zola, Emile

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Bach, Richard

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Berlin, Irving

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Valery, Paul

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Augustine, St.

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De