Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Stone, W. Clement

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Herbert Agar

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

Fuller, Max

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Gide, Andre

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Confucius

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al