Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Bible

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

Bible

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Brandes, George

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blake, William

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

Rosten, Leo

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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