Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is reality.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Truth

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradley, Francis H.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mann, Horace

10.

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

Confucius

11.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

12.

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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Butler, Samuel

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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.