Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

William Shakespeare

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Birmingham, Wayne

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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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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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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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Wilder, Billy

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Tomlin, Lily

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S