Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Truth

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Joubert, Joseph

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Luther, Martin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Truman, Harry S

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Bible

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

Sontag, Susan

19.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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.

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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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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

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

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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 arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Farnham, Eliza

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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