Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Bible

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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 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

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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