Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Renard, Jules

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Lowell, James Russell

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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 the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brandes, George

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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