Motivational Quotes

Truth

See it like it is!

- Cohen, Herb

Best Quotes about Truth

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Luther, Martin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Confucius

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

Rostand, Jean

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Blake, William

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Zola, Emile

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

Rosten, Leo

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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 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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Voltaire

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Barnes, Leonard

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