Motivational Quotes

Truth

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Adler, Alfred

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

Truman, Harry S

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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.

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

Luther, Martin

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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 will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Fuller, Max

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Zola, Emile

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.