Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Berenson, Bernard

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Whately, Richard

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Valery, Paul

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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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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Pindar

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Lennon, John

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

Seabury, David

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

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

Voltaire

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

Einstein, Albert

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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