Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Adler, Alfred

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

Seabury, David

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Herbert, Frank

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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

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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

Sontag, Susan

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Blake, William

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

Aristotle

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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 basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rogers, Will

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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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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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