Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dickinson, Emily

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Bible

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Blake, William

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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Galileo Galilei

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell