Motivational Quotes

Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Confucius

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

10.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

13.

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 is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

15.

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

16.

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

Mamet, David

17.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

18.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

20.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

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

23.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

24.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

25.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

26.

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

Bible

27.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

28.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

29.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

30.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

31.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

34.

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

35.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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 fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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

39.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

40.

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

Lennon, John

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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

42.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

43.

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

Brandes, George

44.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

45.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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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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