Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Truth

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Bible

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Twain, Mark

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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 alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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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 catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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