Motivational Quotes

Truth

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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 everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sontag, Susan

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

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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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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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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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig