Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Farnham, Eliza

Best Quotes about Truth

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

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fuller, Max

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Penn, William

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

34.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Zola, Emile

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Kahlil Gibran

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander