Motivational Quotes

Truth

A half truth is a whole lie.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Seabury, David

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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

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

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Mann, Horace

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.