Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Gide, Andre

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

Voltaire

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Brandes, George

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Confucius

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

Rosten, Leo

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Renard, Jules

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Blake, William

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth and virtue conquer.

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