Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Best Quotes about Truth

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Kersha, Al

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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 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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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Aristotle

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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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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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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It is the truth that irritates a person.