Motivational Quotes

Truth

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Butler, Samuel

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Russell, Utterly

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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

11.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

12.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

13.

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

Brandes, George

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

19.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

20.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

21.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

22.

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

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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.

24.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

25.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Blake, William

31.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emre, Yumus

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

49.

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

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord