Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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 often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Blake, William

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Augustine, St.

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Bach, Richard

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