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

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Diderot, Denis

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Pindar

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Confucius

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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.

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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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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Malcolm X

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Twain, Mark

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Camus, Albert

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Bach, Richard

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

Aristotle

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Baldwin, James