Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Balfour, Arthur James

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Confucius

11.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Scott Westerfeld

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Galileo Galilei

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Aristotle