Motivational Quotes

Truth

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)

Best Quotes about Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Tom Bissell

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Whately, Richard

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

11.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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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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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Luther, Martin

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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

33.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Joubert, Joseph

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Seabury, David

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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 so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Bible

46.

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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.