Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Middleton, Owen C.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Camus, Albert

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

Stone, W. Clement

10.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

18.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Baldwin, James

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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

25.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Granville, Joseph E.

32.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Norris, Frank

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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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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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