Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Blake, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Aristotle

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Penn, William

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

Twain, Mark

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

William Shakespeare

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Lennon, John

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Blake, William

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

Berenson, Bernard

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo