Motivational Quotes

Truth

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Butler, Samuel

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.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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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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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Seabury, David

33.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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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

37.

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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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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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 a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon