Motivational Quotes

Truth

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Blake, William

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bach, Richard

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

Butler, Samuel

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Stone, W. Clement

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)

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Malcolm X

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Baldwin, James

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Bible

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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