Motivational Quotes

Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Bach, Richard

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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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

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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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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 will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Edith Sitwell

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Blake, William

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Twain, Mark

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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