Motivational Quotes

Truth

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Truth

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Zola, Emile

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Augustine, St.

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

Blake, William

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Blake, William

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Herbert, Frank

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

William Shakespeare

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Blake, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Rostand, Jean

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John