Motivational Quotes

Truth

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

- Stevens, Wallace

Best Quotes about Truth

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Rostand, Jean

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hall, Calvin S.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Malcolm X

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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.