Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Gide, Andre

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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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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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emre, Yumus

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Lowell, James Russell

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Fuller, Max

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.