Motivational Quotes

Truth

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Whately, Richard

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

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

William Shakespeare

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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.

22.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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

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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 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 rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

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 is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Malcolm X

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Confucius

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.