Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Aristotle

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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 its own reward.

Plato

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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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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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Bach, Dr. Marcus

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Blake, William

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Twain, Mark

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Gide, Andre

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare