Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Helvetius, Claude A.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Renard, Jules

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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)

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mamet, David

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott