Motivational Quotes

Truth

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

- Berenson, Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Blake, William

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

Strachey, Lionel

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Aristotle

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.