Motivational Quotes

Truth

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gide, Andre

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

W. Somerset Maugham

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hesiod

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

William Shakespeare

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Norris, Frank

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Confucius

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

Davies, Robertson

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Rostand, Jean

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max