Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hamilton, Sir William

Best Quotes about Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

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

Bible

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Rogers, Will

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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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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Bach, Richard

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Bible

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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 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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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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)

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell