Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is more important than the facts.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Quotes about Truth

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

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Emre, Yumus

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.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

10.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

12.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Twain, Mark

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

Camus, Albert

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

24.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Aristotle

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