Motivational Quotes

Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

- Ballou, Hosea

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Kahlil Gibran

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Gide, Andre

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Hesiod

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Bible

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Twain, Mark

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

32.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

Luther, Martin

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Augustine, St.

44.

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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.