Motivational Quotes

Truth

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Truth

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Truman, Harry S

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Scott Westerfeld

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Confucius

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Augustine, St.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Blake, William

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Norris, Frank

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Strachey, Lionel

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Valery, Paul