Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Augustine, St.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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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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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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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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Howard, Vernon

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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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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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.