Motivational Quotes

Truth

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

- Prentice, George D.

Best Quotes about Truth

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Voltaire

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Cronkite, Walter

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Truman, Harry S

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kersha, Al

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

32.

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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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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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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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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