Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Mann, Horace

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

Fuller, Max

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

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

Clarence Darrow

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

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

Baldwin, James

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kersha, Al

18.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

19.

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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Confucius

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Zola, Emile

26.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

29.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

40.

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 is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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.