Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Gide, Andre

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

Epictetus

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

13.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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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 criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Butler, Samuel

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

24.

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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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 truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Bach, Richard

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

33.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Twain, Mark

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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