Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Merzel, David

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Malcolm X

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Twain, Mark

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Baldwin, James

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Rogers, Will

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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