Motivational Quotes

Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Truth

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Farnham, Eliza

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Epictetus

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Darrow, Clarence

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Mamet, David

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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 no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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.

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hill, Napoleon

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Stone, W. Clement

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.