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

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hamilton, Sir William

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howard, Vernon

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Camus, Albert

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Augustine, St.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Dickinson, Emily

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Confucius

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Gide, Andre

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Baldwin, James

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard