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

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Galileo Galilei

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.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Blake, William

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

11.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Zola, Emile

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

Valery, Paul

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Confucius

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Lewis, C. S.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.