Motivational Quotes

Truth

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Truth

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Aristotle

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Mamet, David

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Camus, Albert

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Cronkite, Walter

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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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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Kahlil Gibran

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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