Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Scott Westerfeld

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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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 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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Whately, Richard

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Joubert, Joseph

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Mark Twain

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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

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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