Motivational Quotes

Truth

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

- Prentice, George D.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lennon, John

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Aristotle

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Mark Twain

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Kersha, Al

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

Scott Westerfeld

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Davies, Robertson

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von