Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Smith, Joseph F.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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 comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Blake, William

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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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

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Zola, Emile

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

Penn, William

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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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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

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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.

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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