Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hesiod

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Clarence Darrow

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Renard, Jules

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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

Bible

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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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