Motivational Quotes

Truth

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Bible

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Aristotle

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

Galileo Galilei

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

West, Jessamyn

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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 makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah