Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Darrow, Clarence

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.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Pindar

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aristotle

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Epictetus

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

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 such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.