Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Middleton, Owen C.

Best Quotes about Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Aristotle

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

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Berenson, Bernard

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

11.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

12.

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

13.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

14.

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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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 truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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 mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Bible

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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