Motivational Quotes

Truth

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Stone, W. Clement

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Rogers, Will

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Zola, Emile

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Baldwin, James

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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