Motivational Quotes

Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

- Liebig

Best Quotes about Truth

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Middleton, Owen C.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Baldwin, James

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

Aristotle

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Rostand, Jean

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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]

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