Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Penn, William

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

Joubert, Joseph

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Pindar

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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 never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Zola, Emile

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Confucius

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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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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.