Motivational Quotes

Truth

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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Best Quotes about Truth

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

Cronkite, Walter

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Clarence Darrow

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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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