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

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

William Shakespeare

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

Lee, Bruce

11.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

15.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

16.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

20.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Aristotle

22.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

25.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

26.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

28.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

30.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Twain, Mark

41.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

42.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Butler, Samuel

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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 is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

46.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?