Motivational Quotes

Truth

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Truth

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hare, J. C.

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Confucius

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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 fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Blake, William

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Aristotle

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Bible

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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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.