Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bible

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hare, J. C.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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 truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bach, Richard

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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