Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Truth

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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.

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

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 found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Augustine, St.

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

Seabury, David

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

Baldwin, James

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Bach, Richard

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

Bible

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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