Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Truth

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

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

10.

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

Baldwin, James

11.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

12.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

13.

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

Stone, W. Clement

14.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bible

16.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

18.

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

Sontag, Susan

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

28.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.