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

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Hall, Calvin S.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

William Shakespeare

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Richter, Jean Paul

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Bach, Richard

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.