Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Valery, Paul

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Twain, Mark

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Augustine, St.

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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 does not contradict truth.