Motivational Quotes

Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

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

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Seabury, David

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

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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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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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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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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

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

18.

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

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

Confucius

20.

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

Rogers, Will

21.

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

Tom Bissell

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

23.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

25.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

31.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

32.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

33.

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

Davies, Robertson

34.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

35.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

45.

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

Mamet, David

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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 people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson