Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Aristotle

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Carrel, Alexis

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.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Brandes, George

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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

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

Confucius

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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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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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Malcolm X

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Wilder, Billy

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Twain, Mark

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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 true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.