Motivational Quotes

Truth

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Howard, Vernon

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Scott Westerfeld

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Tom Bissell

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

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Malcolm X

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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.

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

Gide, Andre

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.