Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rostand, Jean

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

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Confucius

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Einstein, Albert

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

31.

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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert