Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Barnes, Leonard

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Edith Sitwell

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Adler, Alfred

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Renard, Jules

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

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kahlil Gibran

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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.