Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Renard, Jules

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

William Shakespeare

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

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adler, Alfred

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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

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

Seabury, David

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

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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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

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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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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.