Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Truth

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

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Bach, Richard

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Blake, William

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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Camus, Albert

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Bible

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Darrow, Clarence

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Rostand, Jean

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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