Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Richards, R. Scott

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Renard, Jules

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

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Whately, Richard

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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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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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

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander