Motivational Quotes

Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Emre, Yumus

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 is its own reward.

Plato

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

Bach, Richard

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Confucius

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Gide, Andre

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

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

Voltaire

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

Blake, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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