Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

- Norris, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baldwin, James

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bach, Richard

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

Fuller, Max

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

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

11.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aristotle

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

19.

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

Tom Bissell

20.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

21.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

22.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Blake, William

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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

27.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

28.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

32.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

33.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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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)

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William