Motivational Quotes

Truth

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Best Quotes about Truth

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Blake, William

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Augustine, St.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Sontag, Susan

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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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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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

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

Barnes, Leonard

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hesiod

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kahlil Gibran

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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.