Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Truth

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Renard, Jules

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Emre, Yumus

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Zola, Emile

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

William Shakespeare

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

Twain, Mark

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

W. Somerset Maugham