Motivational Quotes

Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Darrow, Clarence

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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

Confucius

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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

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Emre, Yumus

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rogers, Will

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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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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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