Motivational Quotes

Truth

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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)

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

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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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 truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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

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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

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

Zola, Emile

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Herbert, Frank

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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 comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell