Motivational Quotes

Truth

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Scott Westerfeld

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Confucius

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Edith Sitwell

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Twain, Mark

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Baldwin, James

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