Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Rogers, Will

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Baldwin, James

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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 not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.