Motivational Quotes

Truth

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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)

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Voltaire

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

Aristotle

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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 is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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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 arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Halifax, Edward F.