Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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

Brandes, George

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Camus, Albert

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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 is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Confucius

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

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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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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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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

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emre, Yumus

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.