Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is reality.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Truth

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Walters, Hellmut

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

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Epictetus

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

William Shakespeare

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Valery, Paul

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Augustine, St.

47.

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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce