Motivational Quotes

Truth

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Bach, Richard

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Strachey, Lionel

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

William Shakespeare

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

Twain, Mark

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

Aristotle

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

Augustine, St.

27.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Aristotle

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

36.

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

Blake, William

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hesiod

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon