Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Blake, William

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

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

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bible

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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

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

Mamet, David

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Zola, Emile

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Twain, Mark

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Berlin, Irving

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Blake, William

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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 catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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