Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Blake, William

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

Camus, Albert

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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 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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Blake, William

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

William Shakespeare

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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 alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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 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 fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin