Motivational Quotes

Truth

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Truth

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rosten, Leo

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Edith Sitwell

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bach, Richard

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Lennon, John

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.