Motivational Quotes

Truth

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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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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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 great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Herbert, Frank

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Epictetus

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily