Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mark Twain

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

Bradley, Francis H.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Voltaire

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

18.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Bach, Richard

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Bible

33.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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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 is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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