Motivational Quotes

Truth

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Best Quotes about Truth

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, James

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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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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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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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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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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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Kersha, Al

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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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 guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.