Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Seabury, David

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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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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Blake, William

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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 power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Aristotle

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Augustine, St.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jefferson, Thomas