Motivational Quotes

Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

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

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

Valery, Paul

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

Twain, Mark

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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 is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bach, Richard

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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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

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Augustine, St.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Aristotle

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

Fuller, Thomas

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Emre, Yumus

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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