Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Fuller, Thomas

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Voltaire

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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 is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Blake, William

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Einstein, Albert

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Augustine, St.

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Butler, Samuel

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S