Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Truth

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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)

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Augustine, St.

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

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.

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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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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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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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 reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Lee, Bruce

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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