Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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 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 is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Emre, Yumus

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Bible

20.

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

Mann, Horace

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Hare, J. C.

27.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

28.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Clarence Darrow

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Blake, William

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

46.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hill, Napoleon