Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fuller, Max

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Kersha, Al

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Zola, Emile

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Seabury, David

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Sontag, Susan