Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is reality.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Whately, Richard

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Bible

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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

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Rogers, Will

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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.

Brittain, Vera

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.