Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is reality.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Baldwin, James

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

11.

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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Rosten, Leo

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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 truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Emre, Yumus

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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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

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

32.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Bible

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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 is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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 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 truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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

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

Renard, Jules

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

Shaw, George Bernard