Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

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

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Scott Westerfeld

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Zola, Emile

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Aristotle

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

Bible

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Baldwin, James

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Rogers, Will

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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