Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Sontag, Susan

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Whately, Richard

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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)

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Blake, William

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Twain, Mark

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lennon, John

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

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

Clarence Darrow

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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