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

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

11.

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

Lee, Bruce

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

15.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

16.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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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

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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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 man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Brandes, George

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

39.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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